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John de Belhous (Bellhouse), son and heir of Thomas de Bellhouse. de Belhous (Bellhouse)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E142
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This record is about the John de Belhous (Bellhouse), son and heir of Thomas de Bellhouse. de Belhous (Bellhouse)... dating from [1302] 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 8/314/E142
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Belhous (Bellhouse), son and heir of Thomas de Bellhouse.
- Name(s)
- de Belhous (Bellhouse), John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Belhous requests that it be granted and commanded that he may hold in peace his share of the manor of Newington at the extent without being charged with various other debts in addition until the extent has been paid as he holds two-thirds of the manor rendering the value according to the extent each year but because his father owed debts from the time he was sheriff of Cambridgeshire and various external debts are coming in demand on this manor for which the sheriff does not forbear to levy part by virtue of the fieri facias nor to answer for great issues by the writ of grand distress notwithstanding that, charging the tenement with more than it can bear or even the half of that, and through these oppressive actions he is unable to attain to the levying or payment of the survey valuation nor even to work the manor as he ought.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should go to the Exchequer, and let it be considered if he should hold by the extent, and if he should hold by the extent then let it be ordered to the sheriff that he should not permit the petitioner to be distrained for other debts.
- Places mentioned
- Newington, Kent
- Hythe, Kent.
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Belhous (Bellhouse), late sheriff of Cambridge and father of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition from the petitioner's mother on a related matter, see SC 8/1/31
For a duplicate petition with different endorsement, see SC 8/314/E126
For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/83/4133
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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)
- 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) & roll 25, appendix, no.33 (full edition and translation of duplicate of this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529194/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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