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John de Claverynge (Clavering). de Claverynge (Clavering) John King. Claverynge requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/232/11582

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This record is about the John de Claverynge (Clavering). de Claverynge (Clavering) John King. Claverynge requests... dating from [c. 1311] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/232/11582
Date
[c. 1311]
Description
Petitioners
John de Claverynge (Clavering).
Name(s)
de Claverynge (Clavering), John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Claverynge requests that the king will command the justices of the Bench that they proceed to judgment in the matter of the manor of Iver. Claverynge's ancestors held the manor by the gift of King John by the service of a knight, but Marshal distrained them to make suit and service at the court of the king of Wallingford, and the matter was put before the justices of the Bench after Claverynge appealed to parliament, but they will not proceed without consulting the king.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let the justices be commanded to proceed in the business and do right according to the usage of the realm providing always that nothing is done to the prejudice of the king.2) Coram rege et magno consilio.
Places mentioned
Iver, [Buckinghamshire]
Wallingford honour.
People mentioned
John, King of England
Steven de Strafforde
William le Mareschal (Marshal), bailiff of the honour of Wallingford
Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
Edward I, King of England.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1311 on the basis of an unconnected reference to the petitioner and a licence to grant the manor (CPR 1307-13, p.401).
Related material

For a copy of the grant of King John formerly appended to this petition, see SC 8/232/11583

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.401 (licence for the petitioner to grant the manor and others)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335141/

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