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John de Erleye (Earley). de Erleye (Earley) John King. Erley requests that he can...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E111

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Reference
SC 8/314/E111
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
John de Erleye (Earley).
Name(s)
de Erleye (Earley), John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Erley requests that he can pay the relief for his father's land that his ancestors have paid as he is grievously distrained by the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to pay the relief of a baron though he does not hold one knights' fee in chief of the king in Earley or for the other lands that he holds.
Nature of endorsement
To the Exchequer and let justice be done there etc.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Earley, [Berkshire]
Somerton, Somerset
North Petherton, Somerset.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/9/437

For another contemporary petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/316/E241

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.7-8 (reference to the wardship of the petitioner)
  • 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.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529162/

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