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John de Maidenstan (Maidstone). de Maidenstan (Maidstone) John King. Maidenstan requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/275/13709
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/275/13709
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Maidenstan (Maidstone).
- Name(s)
- de Maidenstan (Maidstone), John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Maidenstan requests that since the archbishop of Canterbury has declared him legitimate that the king will instruct his justices in the bishopric of Durham that he not be delayed from his right by the suits of his aunts, and that the justices be commanded to enquire of their malicious and collusive suits. He has been delayed by this malice and collusion, and by the jurisdictional problems caused in the king's suit against the bishop.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the justices be ordered to proceed in the plea according to the form of the first commission directed to them on this.
- Places mentioned
- Durham bishopric
- Thorpe Thewles, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- William de Ormesby, late king's justice
- Henry de Guildeford (Guildford), late king's justice
- William de Bereford, king's justice in the bishopric of Durham against Bishop Bek
- Roger Heygham (Higham), king's justice in the bishopric of Durham against Bishop Bek
- Anthony [Bek], Bishop of Durham
- Aveline [Thorp, (Thorpe)], widow of Robert de Thorpe
- John [Maidenstan (Maidstone)], father of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1307 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled from the Hillary parliament of that year in the Vetus Codex (PROME::Vetus Codex 1307, Text/Translation no.60, and appendix, no.60).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.474 (commission of oyer and terminer into the matter)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.222-4 (no.163) (full edition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.198a (no.45) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.60 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517656/
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