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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Simon de Drayton. de Drayton Simon King and council. Drayton requests remedy and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/311/15539
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This record is about the Simon de Drayton. de Drayton Simon King and council. Drayton requests remedy and... dating from [c. 1337] 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 8/311/15539
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Simon de Drayton.
- Name(s)
- de Drayton, Simon
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Drayton requests remedy and restitution of his land because, when he was underage and a ward of Edward I, the approvers in the forest of Rockingham enclosed the land belonging to his manor in the forest and arrented it to John de Drayton. The arrented land is at a place called Prescroft in his manor, but the approvers returned that the land is at a place called Lund, which is not in his manor.
- Nature of endorsement
- There should be an inquisition in the presence of the justice's lieutenant or the steward into all the things contained in the petition, which inquisition should be returned in Chancery and justice done.
- Places mentioned
- Rockingham forest, [Northamptonshire]
- Prescroft [unidentified], [Northamptonshire]
- Lund, [Northamptonshire].
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
- John de Drayton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1337 when an inquisition ad quod damnum was held into the petitioner's request for a renewal of permission to impark lands in the Forest of Rockingham (C 143/241/21).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related inquisition ad quod damnum see C 143/241/21
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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/C9682549/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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