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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Community of the barony of Lewes. King. The community of the barony of Lewes recount...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/276/13780
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This record is about the Community of the barony of Lewes. King. The community of the barony of Lewes recount... dating from [c. 1278] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/276/13780
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1278]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Community of the barony of Lewes.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The community of the barony of Lewes recount that the King has an ongoing dispute with the Earl of Warenne regarding warren and chace in lands that are not of the Earl's demesne, including the claim that the Earl held several chaces and warrens without warrant in 70 vills in the barony of Lewes, which presentment, made by the oaths of good men, was annulled and undone by a corrupt and procured jury who are of the Earl's affinity. They request a better inquisition by a jury from each hundred of the county, and that the King ordain by statute that henceforth no one shall course or fish anywhere where the King has established that no separate warren or chace can be claimed.
- Nature of endorsement
- The justice should be ordered to be at Parliament and to bring the process and record.
- Places mentioned
- Lewes, Sussex.
- People mentioned
- John de Reygate, justice itinerant in Sussex
- Solomon de Roucestre (Rochester), justice itinerant in Sussex
- John [de Warenne], Earl of Warenne
- William [de Warenne], Earl of Warenne
- Henry [III], King of England
- Bartholomew de Briancun
- Robert Aguillun.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1278, with reference to a petition on the 1278 Parliament Roll by Robert Aguylon complaining that John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, who holds the barony of Lewes, claims warren, forest and chace throughout Sussex, even in the lands of knights and freeholders, and mentioning the inquisition before Briancun (Rot. Parl, vol. I, p. 6b, no.28).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517727/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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