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Simon de Semer. de Semer Simon King and council. Simon de Semer requests the herbage...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/257/12801

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Reference
SC 8/257/12801
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Simon de Semer.
Name(s)
de Semer, Simon
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Simon de Semer requests the herbage in the wood of Braithwaite and the covert of Middlesceugh in Inglewood Forest for term of ten years, paying annualy half a mark more than Henry le Scrop or John de Crumbewell did when they had the keeping of the King's forest beyond Trent.
Nature of endorsement
Certain people are to be appointed to inquire, in the presence of the Keeper or his lieutenant, into how much the herbage requested by the petition was worth before the Scottish war and how much it is worth now, saving always the enclosure and the herbage for the King's venison, and into what harm it would be if the King grants his request. And when the inquisition has been returned in Chancery, a command is further to be sent to the Exchequer that the Treasurer and Barons there are further to do with regard to this request what is to be done for the King's profit.
Places mentioned
Braithwaite, [Cumberland]
Middlesceugh, [Cumberland]
Inglewood Forest, [Cumberland]
Scotland.
People mentioned
Henry le Scrop (le Scrope)
John de Crumbewell (Cromwell).
Note
Dated to 1330 by Rot. Parl. vol. II p.33 (no. 16) and by PROME Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.16.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.33b (no. 16) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 16 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440413/

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