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Anketel Wyther of St Briavels. Wyther Anketel King. Wyther requests remedy and shows...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E731

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Reference
SC 8/326/E731
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Anketel Wyther of St Briavels.
Name(s)
Wyther, Anketel
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Wyther requests remedy and shows that the steward of the forest of Dean has made a quarry in his courtyard for the great works that he has had undertaken at the castle of St Briavels. Although this is to the king's profit and great convenience because the quarry is adjacent to the castle, where they used to get their stone two leagues from the castle, yet it is greatly to the damage and loss of Wyther, for he is deprived of the use of the buildings of his courtyard, which he has lost for two years or more and is still deprived of on a daily basis and for his gates and gardens and hedges which have been knocked down in the digging of the quarry.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let the treasurer be commanded to call the keeper and satisfy him and emend the damages which he has incurred.2) Let Botetourt, keeper of the king's castle of St Briavels be commanded to enquire through the oath of honest men etc. to what damage and nuisance Anketel has through that quarry; and he is to send the inquisition made on this to the treasurer at the exchequer one month after Michaelmas.
Places mentioned
St Briavels, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
John Botetourt (Buteturt), keeper of the king's castle of St Briavels.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as a Latin summary of the petition appears on the parliament roll ascribed to the parliament of the summer of 1302 (PROME, roll 25, Text/Translation, no.6).
Related material

For the follow up documents in the Pipe Roll, see m.56d in E 159/80

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.3 (reference to this petition) & roll 25, appendix, no.6 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682726/

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