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John de Walkingham, son of Alan de Walkingham. de Walkingham John King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13227

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SC 8/265/13227
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
John de Walkingham, son of Alan de Walkingham.
Name(s)
de Walkingham, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
John, son of Alan de Walkyngham, requests remedy because after his father died seised of 3 carucates of land in Farnham quit of the obligation to feed the park-keepers of the hay of Knaresborough, Cornwall came and by pressure and distraint levied the obligation from the tenements while the petitioner and his brother Adam were underage and in wardship, and Adam died while underage, and when John came of age and wanted to hold the tenements free of the obligation as they were in his father's time, Stapleton came and distrained him so heavily for this obligation to feed that he cannot cultivate his land.
Nature of endorsement
Both the steward and complainant should come to the Exchequer and the complainant should show his evidence of acquittance and justice should be done, and this should be ordered by writ of Chancery.
Places mentioned
Yorkshire
Farnham, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Cornwall.
People mentioned
Alan de Walkyngham (Walkingham)
Richard de Cornwayll (Cornwall), late steward of the earl of Cornwall and of Knaresborough
Earl of Cornwall
Adam [de Walkingham], son and heir of Alan de Walkingham and elder brother of the petitioner
Miles de Estapelton (Stapleton), steward of Knaresborough.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1305, with reference to Memoranda de Parliamento, p. 18, no.19.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
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), p.18 (no.19) (edition of 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), roll 12, appendix, no.40 (edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517174/

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