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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Tochet, knight, son and heir of Thomas Tochet, knight. Tochet John King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13131
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/263/13131
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1351]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Tochet, knight, son and heir of Thomas Tochet, knight.
- Name(s)
- Tochet, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Tochet requests that whereas he and his ancestors held the manor of Leegomery of the Honour of Montgomery and the manor of Heswall in Cheshire, which honour and county the King has given to the Prince, and Tochet is distrained by writ of the Exchequer for his relief from the same tenements because he did homage for them to the King before the grant to the Prince, that he be granted a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that if they learn by inquisition or otherwise that the tenements are held of the petitioner, that he be discharged and quit towards the King of the relief, notwithstanding that he has done his homage to the King ignorantly.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Illegible].
- Places mentioned
- Lee Combray (Leegomery), [Shropshire]
- Montgomery, [Montgomeryshire, Wales]
- Heswall, Cheshire.
- People mentioned
- Thomas Tochet, knight, father of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Rees to c. 1351, with reference to CFR 1347-56, p. 283, an order to deliver lands to the petitioner in accordance with this petition.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.445 (translation of petition with references)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. VI, Edw III, 1347-1356, (Public Record Office, 1922), p.283 (order to deliver lands to the petitioner in accordance with this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517077/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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