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John, Prior of Edith Weston. John King and council. Prior of Edith Weston The prior...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E166

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Reference
SC 8/315/E166
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
John, Prior of Edith Weston.
Name(s)
John
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Prior of Edith Weston
Nature of request
The prior requests that he can have the estate that he and his predecessors ought to have and that they had at the time that the king took his house into his keeping as the foresters have entered a pasture called 'Wychelee' that is his severalty by force.
Nature of endorsement
They should go to the Exchequer and they should be maintained there because their house is in the king's hand.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Edith Weston, Rutland.
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 a later petition from the same priory, see SC 8/151/7526

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
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.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529218/

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