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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Welleslegh. de Welleslegh Thomas King and council. Welleslegh, who holds...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13156
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This record is about the Thomas de Welleslegh. de Welleslegh Thomas King and council. Welleslegh, who holds... dating from [c. 1300] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/264/13156
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Welleslegh.
- Name(s)
- de Welleslegh, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Welleslegh, who holds the serjeanty of East Parrott of the King in fee, requests remedy because since the King granted the Queen the manors of Somerton and Queens Camel with the foreign hundred of Somerton in East Parrott, the Queen's stewards and other ministers have prevented him from carrying out summonses, attachments, executions of the King's writs, distresses and all other commands of the King or his ministers in those parts of the bailiwick of East Parrott, which he and his ancestors have been accustomed to do in the time of Queen Eleanor as well as since Henry I gave the serjeanty to his ancestors.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Somerset.2) A writ of Chancery should be sent to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to enquire into his seisin, and if he has any to cause the Queen's bailiff to come before them, and to do justice to the petitioner.
- Places mentioned
- Est de Peret (East Parrott), [Somerset]
- Somerton, [Somerset]
- Gamel le Rey (Queens Camel), [Somerset]
- Somerset.
- People mentioned
- [Margaret of France], Queen of England
- Eleanor [of Castile], Queen of England
- Henry I, King of England, son of William I
- William I, King of England.
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.452 (assignment of dower to Margaret, sister of Philip, King of France including Somerton and Camel)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517102/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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