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Prior of Watton. King. Prior of Watton The Prior of Watton states that John, his...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/293/14636
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/293/14636
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Watton.
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Prior of Watton
- Nature of request
- The Prior of Watton states that John, his predecessor, and his predecessors, and their feoffors, were seized of thirty acres of moor and turbary in Reedness, of the right of their church, from the time of the Conqueror until Henry de Lascy, late Earl of Lincoln, disseised him of them. After the death of Joan, the earl's widow, who held them in dower, the tenements came into the hand of the king's father, to whom Alice de Lascy, the earl's daughter and heir, released and quitclaimed them. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Certain people are to be appointed in Chancery to inquire, in the presence of the keeper etc., into the estate that the aforementioned prior has in the aforementioned turbary, and how, and at what time the said thirty acres of turbary came into the hands of Henry de Lascy, and likewise how the same turbary came into the hands of the king, and into all other circumstances necessarily touching this business; and the inquisition on this is to be returned in Chancery, and shown to the lord king.
- Places mentioned
- Watton, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Reedness, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John, Prior of Watton, predecessor of the present prior
- [William I] the Conqueror, King of England
- Henry de Lascy (Lacy), Earl of Lincoln
- Joan [de Lascy (Lacy)], Countess of Lincoln
- [Edward II], King of England
- Alice de Lascy (Lacy), [Countess of Lincoln].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From the mention of the king's father, and of Joan, Countess of Lincoln, who died in 1322, this petition would seem to date from the early years of the reign of Edward III.
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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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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735798/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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