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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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Adam de Raveneswath (Ravensworth). de Raveneswath (Ravensworth) Adam King and council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/323/E567
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This record is about the Adam de Raveneswath (Ravensworth). de Raveneswath (Ravensworth) Adam King and council... dating from [1316-c. 1323] 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 8/323/E567
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316-c. 1323]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam de Raveneswath (Ravensworth).
- Name(s)
- de Raveneswath (Ravensworth), Adam
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Raveneswath requests remedy for the conspiracy and malice against him by Geoffrey de Eston, as a great lord of the county ordered William and Roger de Eston to punish Nicholas le Carpenter and they killed Carpenter and his brother at Aldwark, and then because it became known throughout the country that this lord had ordered this he commanded Geoffrey de Eston to place the blame on someone else and Raveneswath has been maliciously pursued and imprisoned for this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Bulmer wapentake, [North Riding of] Yorkshire
- Aldewerk sur Swale (Aldwark), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- York.
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey de Eston, bailiff of Bulmer wapentake
- William de Eston, brother of Geoffrey de Eston, then forester of Nicholas de Menhill
- Roger de Eston, brother of Geoffrey de Eston, then forester of Nicholas de Menhill
- Nicholas le Carpenter
- Thomas [le Carpenter], brother of Nicholas le Carpenter
- Simon Ward, then sheriff of York
- John de Donecastre (Doncaster), justice
- Richard de Bermingham, justice
- Adam de Heperton, justice
- Mayor of York
- Roger Basy
- Gerard Salvayn.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1316-c. 1323 as it makes mention of Simon Ward as then sheriff of Yorkshire, and he served between 1315 and 1323 on three separate occasions (List of Sheriffs, p.161).
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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/C9529619/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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