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John Polegroyn. Polegroyn John King. Polegroyn requests the grant of the bailiwick...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E211

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This record is about the John Polegroyn. Polegroyn John King. Polegroyn requests the grant of the bailiwick... dating from [1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/316/E211
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
John Polegroyn.
Name(s)
Polegroyn, John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Polegroyn requests the grant of the bailiwick of Dartmoor for his life as it was held in the times of the earl for the imprisonment and maiming and other great losses that he has suffered in the king's service, this he asks for reward as the letters that he had before these hours to abbots and priors are of no value.
Nature of endorsement
The king has granted and wills that it be done if it can be, and upon this he should await the presence of the treasurer.The treasurer answered him that he should come to the Exchequer in the feast of St Michael and there will be the bailiffs of Cornwall and Devon and it will be enquired of them of the value, condition and other circumstances relating to the bailiwick and he will be answered:
Places mentioned
Dartmoor, [Devon].
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/C9529263/

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