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Robert de Wycumb (Wycombe), chaplain. de Wycumb (Wycombe) Robert [Not specified]....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/342/16142

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This record is about the Robert de Wycumb (Wycombe), chaplain. de Wycumb (Wycombe) Robert [Not specified].... dating from [c. 1280-c. 1300] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/342/16142
Date
[c. 1280-c. 1300]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Wycumb (Wycombe), chaplain.
Name(s)
de Wycumb (Wycombe), Robert
Addressees
[Not specified].
Occupation
chaplain
Nature of request
Wycumb states that Joan de Teye took the wardship and marriage of her son Ralph until his coming of age, and was seised of it from Easter until the feast of St John when Burels with his force, and Wallace came and by force and took Ralph to Wycumb's house in Teye and also ousted Wycumb's men and took his standing crops and are still seised of the same to his damage. Wycumb requests a writ be directed to Holebroke to enquire of the trespass and to do right to him.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Fordham, Cambridgeshire
Tey, Essex.
People mentioned
Joan de Teye (Tey), widow of John de Tey
John de Teye (Tey), late husband of Joan de Tey
Ralph [de Teye], son of Joan de Tey
Walter de Burels
Robert le Walays (Wallace) of Suberi in the vill of Fordham
Richard de Hollebrocke (Holebroke).
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1280-c. 1300 on the basis of the hand, and it is, perhaps, earlier in this period.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Miscellaneous Roll 22/5/12 (transferred 7/10/1924).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736623/

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Robert de Wycumb (Wycombe), chaplain. de Wycumb (Wycombe) Robert [Not specified]....