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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Geoffrey de Mountford. de Mountford Geoffrey King and council. Mountford requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E760
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This record is about the Geoffrey de Mountford. de Mountford Geoffrey King and council. Mountford requests... dating from [c. 1280-c. 1290] 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/E760
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1280-c. 1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey de Mountford.
- Name(s)
- de Mountford, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mountford requests allowance of the sum that his father was amerced in by the procurement of certain men in the last eyre at [...] before Rochester and his companions for entering the lands and tenements of le Bret in Orchardleigh father approached the king's court on this and an inquisition was ordered and returned into Chancery that found that le Bret held nothing of the king in chief on the day that he died and a writ was directed to Kirkby and the barons of the Exchequer that the sum was pardoned but it is still not allowed to the petitioner.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- He should sue at the Exchequer, and acquire to himself a writ and let justice be done to him.2) Let the rolls of the eyre of Rochester be examined whether found by the presentment of the jury in the eyre or by an inquisition in which Henry put himself, that Henry usurped that[...] against the king.
- Places mentioned
- Nony (Nunney), [Somerset]
- Orchardleigh, [Somerset].
- People mentioned
- Henry de Mountford of Nunney, father of the petitioner
- Saloman de Rouscestr' (Rochester), justice
- Ralph le Bret
- John de Kyrkeby (Kirkby).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1280-c. 1290 as the petition refers to the eyre of 1280 in Somerset, but it is clear from the contents of the petition that some time has elapsed since the eyre, the petitioner's father having died in the meantime (Crook, D. Records of the General Eyre, p. 160).
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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/C9682755/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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