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Prior of Spalding. King and council. Prior of Spalding The Prior of Spalding requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/329/E964
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This record is about the Prior of Spalding. King and council. Prior of Spalding The Prior of Spalding requests... dating from [c. 1297] 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 8/329/E964
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Spalding.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of Spalding
- Nature of request
- The Prior of Spalding requests remedy as John Wake enfeoffed the king with the manor of Deeping and received it back jointly with his wife by charter, but Wyckewane maliciously returned the writ directed to him to give seisin to the Wakes, and Wake enclosed by banks the Prior's march neighbouring Spalding, Pinchbeck, Langtoft, Baston and Deeping and the people of the country threw these down, and now the Prior and the people are impleaded at the suit of the king before the justices of the Bench.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wishes that all that was occupied when the king had seisin should be returned and put back in the state that they were before.
- Places mentioned
- Spalding, [Lincolnshire]
- Deeping, [Lincolnshire]
- Pinchbeck, [Lincolnshire]
- Langtoft, [Lincolnshire]
- Baston, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- John Wak (Wake)
- Joan [Wak (Wake)], wife of John Wake
- Reginald Wyckewane, keeper of the manor of Deeping.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1297 on the basis of entries relating to the grant of the manors by the Wakes to the king, and their re-grant to the Wakes, events referred to in the petition (CPR 1292-1301, pp. 296, 303).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.296, 303 (entries relating to the grant of the manors to the king and their regrant to Wake and his wife)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682959/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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