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Robert de Scales. de Scales Robert King and council. Scales requests remedy so that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/243/12124B
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/243/12124B
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Scales.
- Name(s)
- de Scales, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Scales requests remedy so that he is not disinherited as it was found by inquisition following the death of Tudenham that he held part of his lands of Scales, but none in chief of the king, but a second unauthorised petition found that he did hold in chief. After the inquisitions were returned into Chancery the lands were seized, but subsequently another inquisition was held, and as the inquisition found that Tudenham held nothing in chief of the king, and when this was returned the chancellor granted to Scales a day a fortnight after Hillary last past, but the keeper of the great seal did not wish to grant that the king's hand be removed without a warrant.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Stamford, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- [William de Bohun], Earl of Northampton
- Robert de Tudenham
- John de Seint Poule (St Pol), keeper of the great seal.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition must date to 1340 as mention is made to John de St Pol being keeper of the great seal, and he held the seal between 18 February and 28 April, the period between the death of Bishop Bintworth, the chancellor, and the appointment of his successor (CCR 1339-41, pp.451, 467).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), pp.cl-cli (full edition of petition)
- The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), pp.429-430 (no. ii) (translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439728/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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