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? No Petitioner named Writ to the mayor and sheriffs of London commanding them to...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/313/E78

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ to the mayor and sheriffs of London commanding them to... dating from [1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/313/E78
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ to the mayor and sheriffs of London commanding them to examine the matter of the land of the abbot of Flaxley usurped by Wymondham in the parish of St Benet, Woodwharf.
Nature of endorsement
Execution of this writ appears in the inquisition annexed to this writ.
Places mentioned
Flaxley, [Gloucestershire]
London
Westminster.
People mentioned
Edward I, King of England
Mayor and sheriffs of London
Abbot of Flaxley
William de Wymundeham (Wymondham)
Note
The writ dates to 1302 with the petition with which it was formerly enclosed (SC 8/313/E77). The writ itself is dated in its dating clause to 28 March 1300 [28 Edw. I].
Related material

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached, see SC 8/313/E77

For the inquisition that resulted from this writ and with which it was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/313/E79

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.3 (reference to this writ) & roll 25, appendix, no.16 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529129/

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