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Richard Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan). Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan) Richard King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/258/12851

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This record is about the Richard Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan). Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan) Richard King and council.... dating from [? 1284] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/258/12851
Date
[? 1284]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan).
Name(s)
Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan), Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Richard Fitz Aleyn, who is under age and whose lands are in the King's hand during his minority, complains that John de St John has encroached on various liberties, rights and customs belonging to the honour of Arundel. He asks that justices might be sent to Sussex to put right these wrongs and others done by John and others of Sussex, and to put his lands back in the state in which they were when his father died seised of them.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Arundel, Sussex
Box hundred, Sussex
Avisford hundred, Sussex.
People mentioned
John de Seynt Johan (St John)
John Fitz Aleyn (Fitz Alan), father of Richard Fitz Aleyn.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1326 (commission to inquire into infringements of the rights of the petitioner)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.67 (commission to inquire into an accretion of 60 acres to John de St John's park, to the injury of Richard Fitz Aleyn and the King)
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