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? No Petitioner named Memorandum that Adam de Clyfton, kinsman and heir of Thomas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16045

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Reference
SC 8/340/16045
Date
1327
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Memorandum that Adam de Clyfton, kinsman and heir of Thomas de Caylly came into Chancery at Westminster on 30 January, 1 Edw. III, and claimed to hold Buckenham Castle from the king in chief by homage and service of being chief butler by fee at the coronation of the king just as appears by a certain petition sewn to this schedule.Memorandum that on the same day John, son and heir of Geoffrey de Burdeleys came into Chancery at the same place and claimed to hold the manor of Scoulton from the king in chief by homage and the petty sergeanty of being larderer by fee at the coronation etc. as appears by his petition etc. as above.Item John Daubeneye came into Chancery at the same place on 31 January in the aforesaid year and claimed to hold certain tenements in Gloucestershire from the king by the sergeanty of being usher of the pantry and larder [or 'usher of the pantry and larderer'] at the coronation etc. as appears by a bill etc.Item at the same day in Chancery in the same place Henry Hillary claimed to hold the manor of Scrivelsby by the service of defending by his body in the coronation against anyone claiming that the king was not the true king, as appears by his bill etc.Item the 4 February next following Robert Selyman and Joan his wife claimed to hold [Shipton] Moyne in Gloucestershire, Owermoigne in Dorset and Great Easton in Essex by the sergeanty of being . . . at the king's coronation as appears by a bill etc.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Westminster
New Buckenham, Norfolk
Scoulton [Norfolk]
Gloucestershire
Scrivelsby, [Lincolnshire]
[Shipton] Moyne, Gloucestershire
Owermoigne, Dorset
Eystanes atte Munte (Great Easton), Essex.
People mentioned
Adam de Clyfton (Clifton)
Thomas de Caylly
John [de Burdeleys], son and heir of Geoffrey de Burdeleys
John Daubeneye
Henry Hillary
Robert Selyman
Joan [Selyman], wife of Robert Selyman.
Note
Memorandum bearing various dates in January and February 1 Edward III (1327); the petitions which relate to it clearly date to the coronation of Edward III (Early Coronation Records, pp.1-9).
Related material

For the warrant under the great seal pertaining to the Hillary petition, see no. 18 in C 81/136

For Clifton's petition, see SC 8/266/13284

For Daubeney's petition, see SC 8/268/13390

For one version of Hillary's petition, see SC 8/265/13230

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Early Coronation Records, H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Clarendon Press, 1936), pp. 1-9 (discussion and full edition of memorandum and other related petitions and records)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736526/

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