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Robert Scarclif, clerk; Nicholas Gascoigne. Scarclif; Gascoigne Robert; Nicholas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/250/12462

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Reference
SC 8/250/12462
Date
[1401]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Scarclif, clerk; Nicholas Gascoigne.
Name(s)
Scarclif; Gascoigne, Robert; Nicholas
Addressees
King.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
Scarclif and Gascoigne request justice since they and John, late baron de la Warr were seised of the manor of Billingborough and all the lands late of Marmion in Bourne of the feoffment of Airmyn and Palmer, to the end that they should enfeoff Thomas, Earl of Kent, Alice, his wife, and their heirs of the same, but they continued their seisin without making the feoffment until they were removed by Asplion and Paraunt by an inquisition which found that the petitioners and others were enfeoffed in fee simple of the manor of Billingborough and the lands in Bourne to the use of Thomas, late Earl of Kent, the son, long before he rose in insurrection. The late earl also took the profits of the manor.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Billingborough, [Lincolnshire]
Bourne, Lincolnshire.
People mentioned
John [la Warr], late baron de la Warr
William Marmyon (Marmion), knight
William de Ayrmyn (Airmyn), knight
William Palmere (Palmer) of Billingborough
Thomas [Holland], late Earl of Kent
Alice [Holland], wife of Thomas Holland, late Earl of Kent
John Asplion, clerk
John Paraunt, serjeant at arms
Thomas [Holland], late Earl of Kent, son of Thomas Holland, late Earl of Kent.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1401, with reference to CPR 1399-1401, p. 517, a commission to enquire into the matter of this petition. This is also the date of the Chancery warrant with which it was formerly enclosed (C 81/608 no.2530).
Related material

For the Chancery writ in which this was formerly enclosed see no.2530 of C 81/608

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, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.517-518 (commission to enquire into the matter of this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440068/

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