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? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward I to Margaret, widow of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/257/12831

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward I to Margaret, widow of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall,... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/257/12831
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Edward I to Margaret, widow of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, asking her to do justice to Cecily, widow of Robert de Kyrketon with regard to one third of a messuage and nine bovates of land in Kirton in Lindsey, which Margaret and Agnes, widow of Thomas de Bromholm are withholding from her.
Nature of endorsement
[Endorsement to SC 8/257/12830] Coram rege.She is to sue a writ to have the case recorded for the cause contained in the petition, [returnable] before the justices of the Bench.
Places mentioned
Kirton in Lindsey, [Lincolnshire]
Stirling, [Stirlingshire, Scotland].
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
Margaret, [Countess of Cornwall], widow of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall
Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
Cecily [de Kyrketon], widow of Robert de Kyrketon
Robert de Kyrketon
Agnes [de Bromholm], widow of Thomas de Bromholm
Thomas de Bromholm.
Note
Writ dated at Stirling, 1 June 32 Edward I (1304), enclosed with a petition from the Lent parliament of 1305 (SC 8/257/12830).
Related material

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached see SC 8/257/12830

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.119-120 (no.193) (full edition of original writ, related petition and Latin summary on parliament roll)
  • 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), roll 12, appendix, no.203 (full edition and translation of writ and related petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440443/

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