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Ladies of the house of St Michael outside Stamford. King. The ladies request that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/275/13739

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Reference
SC 8/275/13739
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Ladies of the house of St Michael outside Stamford.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The ladies request that the deeds of the king's ancestors granting them two cartloads of thorns and dead wood a day all year be confirmed as the foresters delay delivery for lack of confirmation.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.2) If the charter was such and has been observed as it ought then it is to be confirmed.
Places mentioned
Stamford, [Lincolnshire]
King's Cliffe, [Northamptonshire].
Note
The petition is dated to 1305 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the section of the parliament roll which was produced for the Lent parliament of 1305 (PROME, roll 12, Introduction, and Appendix, no.133).
Related material

For another contemporary petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/275/13740

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.51 (inspeximus and confirmation of charter)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.79 (no.129) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.163b (no.41) (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), roll 12, appendix, no.133 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517686/

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