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Robert de Morby (Moreby). de Morby (Moreby) Robert King. Morby requests that the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/242/12074

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Reference
SC 8/242/12074
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Morby (Moreby).
Name(s)
de Morby (Moreby), Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Morby requests that the king grant his grace to him, his wife, and Grey that for all the lives of Morby and his wife and to the heirs after his wife's death that they are able to have free warren in the manors of Cogges, Upton, and Sculcotes.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Cogges, Oxfordshire
Upton, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
Sculcotes, [East Riding of] Yorkshire.
People mentioned
Margaret [de Morby (Moreby)], wife of the petitioner
John de Grey.
Note
The petition dates to 1330 as the privy seal warrant with which it was probably formerly enclosed dates to 21 April 1330 [4 Edw. III] (C 81/170/3461).
Related material

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was apparently formerly enclosed, see no. 3461 in C 81/170

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. IV, 1-14 Edw III, 1327-1341, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.302 (grant of free warren to the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439677/

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