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Thomas de Nerford (Narford). de Nerford (Narford) Thomas King and Council. Thomas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/266/13273

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Reference
SC 8/266/13273
Date
[1338]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de Nerford (Narford).
Name(s)
de Nerford (Narford), Thomas
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Thomas de Nerford requests remedy regarding matters of process in an assize of novel disseisin brought before the justices of assize in Norfolk by John and Joan Howard, regarding four acres of moor in the vills of Narford and East Walton. He duly came to the hearing and stated that the moor was actually only in Narford, and had been granted jointly to him and his wife Alice and their heirs by Alan and William. The writ only mentioned him alone, but the justices have refused to take this into account.
Nature of endorsement
Send a writ under the great seal to the justices of assize that the duly enrol the exception alleged before them, and if they do not wish to do so, make to seal a bill according to the form of the statute.
Places mentioned
Norfolk
Narford, [Norfolk]
East Walton, [Norfolk]
Ashill, [Norfolk]
Chetestan (Chediston), [Suffolk].
People mentioned
John [de Schardelowe], justice of assize
[Hugh de Croft], justice of assize
[John Howard]
[Joan Howard, wife of John Howard]
[Alan], parson of Ashill
William, vicar of Chediston
Alice de [Nerford], wife of the petitioner.
Note
Dated by Rot. Parl. Vol. II, p.101 to 1338. The original petition is now badly damaged and incomplete, but the transcript is complete, although slightly inaccurate in places.
Related material

For another petitioner by the same petitioner and others, see SC 8/131/6548

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/176/8759

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/130/6476

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.101 (no. 12) (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517220/

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