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Thomas Wake of Liddell. Wake Thomas King and council. Wake recites the descent of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/331/15692
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/331/15692
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1347]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Wake of Liddell.
- Name(s)
- Wake, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Wake recites the descent of the manors of Knaresborough and Boroughbridge from the time of Henry II, and requests restitution of the manors, since they were taken into the King's hand by King John while Eustace, son and heir of Robert de Stuteville, was in his mother's womb, and so could not claim his inheritance.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the King.2) The treasurer and chamberlains were ordered to search the remembrances of the Exchequer to discover the reason the manors had come into the King's hand, when, in whose time, and if any of the King's progenitors were seised of the same manors before the time of King John, and it should likewise be searched in Chancery between now and the next Parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Pontesburgh (Boroughbridge), [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Henry [II], King of England
- [Matilda], Empress
- William Destotevill (de Stuteville)
- Richard [I], King of England
- John, King of England
- Robert Destotevill (de Stuteville), son and heir of William de Stuteville
- Nicholas Destotevill (de Stuteville), brother of William de Stuteville and heir apparent of Robert de Stuteville
- Eustace [de Stuteville], son and heir of Robert de Stuteville
- Joan [de Stuteville], daughter and heir of Nicholas de Stuteville
- Baldwin [Wake], son and heir of Joan de Stuteville
- John [Wake], son and heir of Baldwin Wake and father of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? c. 1347, although similar petitions are dated to 1327-35 and 1348 respectively (SC 8/12/575; SC 8/156/7790).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/12/575
For documents belonging to this petition see SC 8/331/15693
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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/C9683103/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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