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Philip de Melton. de Melton Philip King and council. Melton requests remedy as it...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E734
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/326/E734
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Philip de Melton.
- Name(s)
- de Melton, Philip
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Melton requests remedy as it was customary for the chief justice of the Bench to grant the office of crier for life, and Brabazon granted the office to Melton and he held it until Malemeyns suggested that the office pertained to the king whereupon the office was granted to her and he was ousted wrongfully. Melton petitioned to the parliament at York in the 11th year of the reign by which the chief justice was commanded to examine the custom, Melton vouching the transcript of this record and the writ.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- People mentioned
- Ralph de Hengham, Chief Justice of the Bench
- Bartholomew de Norhampton (Northampton), crier
- Gilbert de Thornton, Chief Justice of the Bench
- Roger le Brabazoun (Brabazon), Chief Justice of the Bench
- Alice Malemeyns
- Henry le Scrope, Chief Justice of the Bench.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1319 on the basis of the dating given by Sayles (SCCKB, vol. V, pp.cxix-cxx). The petition itself refers to a petition presented to the York parliament of 11 Edw. II (1317-18), though this is perhaps an error for the one held in 1319.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a letter enclosed with that petition, see SC 8/86/4290
For a writ enclosed with that petition, see SC 8/86/4288
For another petition from the same petitioner on this matter, see SC 8/86/4287
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), p.734 (entry c) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682729/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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