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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Aunger of Reedness. Aunger Robert King and council. Robert Aunger of Reedness...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/294/14685
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/294/14685
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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
- Robert Aunger of Reedness.
- Name(s)
- Aunger, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Robert Aunger of Reedness states that he and his ancestors, their feoffors and their ancestors, were sezied of sixty acres of moor and turbary with appurtenances in Reedness from the time of William the Conqueror until Henry de Lascy, formerly Earl of Lincoln, disseised him of them. They came into the hand of the king's father after the death of Joan, the earl's wife, who held them in dower, as Alice, the earl's daughter and heir released and quitclaimed them to him. Robert requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Certain people are to be appointed in Chancery to inquire, in the presence of the keeper of those lands the estate that the . . . mentioned here had in the moor and turbary mentioned here, and how and in what way the said moor and turbary came into the hands of Henry de Lascy, and likewise how the same moor and turbary came into the king's hands, and into other circumstances . . . and the inquisition is to be returned in Chancery and . . . the lord king.Enrolled.
- Places mentioned
- Reedness, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- 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], daughter of Henry de Lascy, Earl of Lincoln.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to c. 1327 by the reference to the death of Joan, Countess of Lincoln, in the time of the king's father. She appears to have died in 1322 (Complete Peerage).
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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/C9735848/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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