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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert de Sefeld. de Sefeld Robert King and council. [Petition in two parts:]1) Sefeld...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E768
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/326/E768
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1280-1295]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Sefeld.
- Name(s)
- de Sefeld, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in two parts:]1) Sefeld complains of the Bakon brothers who procured a charter of feoffment from Lovetot of lands, rents and the advowson of the church of Brampton, the which Lovetot had previously put the petitioner in good and peaceful seisin of a year or more before. Lovetot also came into the Bench and acknowledged Adam Bacon's rights though he knew of the petitioner's rights in disinheritance of the petitioner and in deceit of the court.2) [The petition is not very legible:] Sefeld complains that Adam Bacon came with many others and by force and arms and drove his beasts from the fields of Brampton.
- Nature of endorsement
- Concerning the lands and tenements he should obtain justice for himself by writ, and similarly concerning the trespass.
- Places mentioned
- Brampton, Suffolk.
- People mentioned
- John Bakon (Bacon)
- Adam Bakon (Bacon), brother of John Bacon
- John de Luvetot (Lovetot).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1280-1295 as the petition has to date to before 1295 when the king granted several advowsons to Joan Lovetot as her dower portion of her husband John's advowsons on 12 October 1295 (CCR 1288-96, p. 435).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related schedule, see SC 8/328/E888
For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/328/E887
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1288-1296, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.435 (grant of dower to the widow of John de Lovetot)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682763/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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