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John Giffard, clerk. Giffard John King. Brabant, [Belgium] St Leonard's hospital,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/245/12242

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This record is about the John Giffard, clerk. Giffard John King. Brabant, [Belgium] St Leonard's hospital,... dating from [1332] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/245/12242
Date
[1332]
Description
Petitioners
John Giffard, clerk.
Name(s)
Giffard, John
Addressees
King.
Places mentioned
Brabant, [Belgium]
St Leonard's hospital, York
Cotterstock, [Northamptonshire]
Rockingham forest, [Northamptonshire].
Nature of request
[Petition in 2 parts:] 1) Giffard requests that it be commanded that writs be made according to the charters that the king granted him for a fine made before the king departed to Brabant, granting that the hospital of St Leonard and the chantry of Cotterstock be quit of taxes granted by lay and clerk to the king and his heirs. 2) Giffard requests that the land that he granted to the chantry of Cotterstock by licence of the king in the forest of Rockingham in a place called 'le Southside de Totenhowe' be granted that it be out of the regard and view of the foresters. He further requests that the king confirm the ordinances of the chantry.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Note
The petition dates to 1332 as the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, and the charter made in response to part of the petition date to 21 April 1340 [14 Edw. III] (C 81/265/12931; CChR 1327-1341, p.465).
Related material

For the Chancery warrant in which this petition was apparently formerly enclosed, see no. 12932 in C 81/265

For another petition by the same petitioner with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/245/12244

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.468 (recital of licences and of the petition, and grant relating to the second part of this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439848/

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