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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Miles de Stapelton. de Stapelton Miles King. Stapelton requests the king's grace...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/321/E451
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This record is about the Miles de Stapelton. de Stapelton Miles King. Stapelton requests the king's grace... dating from [c. 1297] 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 8/321/E451
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Miles de Stapelton.
- Name(s)
- de Stapelton, Miles
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Stapelton requests the king's grace that he is able to recover his free tenement as he was granted a rent in Thirsk and Hovingham by Mowbray but subsequently disseised by him while Stapelton was in the Gascon war with his lord the earl of Lincoln, and he is unable to have recovery because the rent is in the king's hand by the death of Mowbray.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should pursue this for himself by writ of novel disseisin against the disseisors and the tenants, the justices should proceed to take the assize notwithstanding that the tenements are in the king's hand, but they should defer judgment until the king etc. if necessary etc.
- Places mentioned
- Thirsk, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Hovingham, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Gascony, [France].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mountbray (Mowbray)
- [Henry de Lacy], earl of Lincoln.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1297 as the petition is clearly after the death of Roger de Mowbray before 21 November 1297, and after the earl of Lincoln's time as lieutenant in Gascony which endured until the end of 1297 (Complete Peerage, IX, p.377).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529503/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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