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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Philip Mortain. Mortain Philip King and council. Mortain requests that he be pardoned...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/317/E290
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This record is about the Philip Mortain. Mortain Philip King and council. Mortain requests that he be pardoned... dating from [1316-1319] 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 8/317/E290
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316-1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Philip Mortain.
- Name(s)
- Mortain, Philip
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mortain requests that he be pardoned the sum that is currently in demand for the two years arrears of the extent of the manor of Quixeley, and that it be granted that he be quit until the coming of age of the infant in aid of his sustenance. He was granted the manor for his losses in the service of the king and his father but has had little profit since the coming of John de Lilleburn and the burning and destruction of the Scots.
- Nature of endorsement
- Petitions before the lord king concerning debt.
- Places mentioned
- Stirling (Bannockburn), [Stirlingshire, Scotland]
- Quixeley (Whixley), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Lilleburn (Lilburn).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1316-1319 as the lands were granted to the petitioner on 7 November 1316, and were resumed into the king's hand on 5 June 1319 [CFR 1307-19, pp.310, 405].
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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)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.310 (grant of the keeping of the lands to the petitioner) & p.405 (order to the escheator to resume the lands, they being resigned by the petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529342/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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