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? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward I to Despenser commanding him to enquire by...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E186

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Reference
SC 8/315/E186
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Edward I to Despenser commanding him to enquire by the oaths of the foresters and verderers as well as by the oaths of law-worthy men of the truth of the claims by Welle, he having been granted the custody of the office of steward of the forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stamford, and the profits having been reduced because of a perambulation that disafforested areas so that he is now unable to answer wholly for his farm.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
Stamford, [Lincolnshire]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Edward I, King of England
Hugh le Despenser, justice of the King's Forest south of the Trent
Adam de Welle, steward of the king's forests between the bridges of Oxford and Stamford.
Note
The writ is dated to 1302 with the petition with which it was formerly enclosed (SC 8/315/E179). The writ itself is dated in its dating clause to 20 February 1301].
Related material

For the petition with which this writ was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/315/E179

For a schedule formerly enclosed with this writ, see SC 8/315/E178

For an inquisition formerly enclosed with this writ, see SC 8/315/E184

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.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529238/

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