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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter de Versshagh; Christiana de Versshagh, wife of Walter de Verssagh. de Versshagh;...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E713
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This record is about the Walter de Versshagh; Christiana de Versshagh, wife of Walter de Verssagh. de Versshagh;... dating from [c. 1293] 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 8/326/E713
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1293]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Versshagh; Christiana de Versshagh, wife of Walter de Verssagh.
- Name(s)
- de Versshagh; de Versshagh, Walter; Christiana
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in two parts:]1) Walter de Versshagh complains of the sheriff of Wiltshire and his bailiffs who distrain him grievously to his great damage to be on assizes and juries at London at the Bench and elsewhere, and they have sold some of the distraints, and he has been forced to sell some of his land to his great damage, he not being resident in the county.2) Versshagh and his wife complain that they were impleaded by writ of the king in the suburb of Bristol, and at the first day they were essoined, and afterwards they made default, and for which default they offered pledges to come and do what the law willed, and Dyme, Cole, and Kyng, their adversary and imprisoned them for a week or more so that they were not able to leave by any mainprise until they were moved to Somerton as common thieves against the peace to their damage in the nineteenth year of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Bradford hundred, Wiltshire
- Somerset
- Bristol
- Somerton, [Somerset].
- People mentioned
- Richard de Cumbe, sheriff of Wiltshire
- John le Bedel of the hundred of Bradford
- William le Cras, bailiff of the hundred of Bradford
- Roger le Cras, bailiff of the hundred of Bradford
- Walter Dyme, bailiff
- Adam Cole, sergeant
- Bertelot le Kyng.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1293 as the petition makes mention of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first years of Edward I.
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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/C9682708/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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