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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Wygeton (Wigton). de Wygeton (Wigton) John King and council. Wygeton requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E244
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This record is about the John de Wygeton (Wigton). de Wygeton (Wigton) John King and council. Wygeton requests... 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 8/316/E244
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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 Wygeton (Wigton).
- Name(s)
- de Wygeton (Wigton), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Wygeton requests that he can hold the lands in the manor of Waverton of which Muncaster died seised, he being Wygeton's tenant and in his homage, as he entered the land on Muncaster's death without heirs as chief lord, but the escheater ousted him for the reason that Muncaster's heir of the blood resides in Scotland. Wygeton has been destroyed and burnt by the Scots and has served the king with all his power in Scotland and requests that he can hold the land for the extent until the king ordains otherwise.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the petition that William presents be examined; and let it be answered by the council.[This William is not mentioned otherwise in the petition, and perhaps presented the petition for the petitioner].
- Places mentioned
- Waverton, [Cumberland]
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- John de Mulcastre (Muncaster)
- William.
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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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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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529296/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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