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People of the ancient demesnes of Stoneleigh in Arden. King. The people complain...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/269/13404

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Reference
SC 8/269/13404
Date
[1290]
Description
Petitioners
People of the ancient demesnes of Stoneleigh in Arden.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people complain that they have been deprived of their reasonable estovers and commons in their woods by the destruction and assarting made by the abbot of Stoneleigh, who has made assarts and given them to men who can harm them and sold other land to the Templars, and without the king's aid in the defence of their commons they will have to leave their land.[There is a copy of a writ of King Henry III sewn to the petition ordering that the men of Stoneleigh enjoy their common rights].
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Stanle in Arderne (Stoneleigh), [Warwickshire]
Coventry, [Warwickshire]
Allesley, [Warwickshire]
Berkswell, [Warwickshire]
Kenilworth, [Warwickshire]
Stivichall, [Warwickshire].
People mentioned
Abbot of Stoneleigh
Templars.
Note
The petition is dated to 1290 as the petition is ascribed this date in the edition of the parliament rolls (PROME, roll 02, appendix, no. 13).
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. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.46b (no.12) (Latin summary possibly of this petition but with a fuller response)
  • 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 02, appendix, no.13 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517351/

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