Catalogue description Petitioners: Agnes de Dunlegh. Name(s): de Dunlegh, Agnes Addressees: King...

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Details of SC 8/11/513
Reference: SC 8/11/513
Description:
Petitioners: Agnes de Dunlegh.
Name(s): de Dunlegh, Agnes
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Dunlegh states that Edward II bought lands from her tenants at a place called la Rosere against the walls of the tower, which were held of her by rent and by the service of making and keeping the walls against the Thames, which service and repair of the walls he made in his time. The walls are now in a perilous state and she has not been paid, so that she requests that the king order that the walls are hastily repaired and the arrears of her rent are paid.
Nature of endorsement: By this petition the treasurer and barons are to be ordered that they strengthen and make to repair the place.
Places mentioned: Southwark, [Surrey]; la Rosere [unidentified], [Surrey]; River Thames, [Surrey].
People mentioned: Edward II, King of England.
Note: The petition is dated to 1330 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.31 which records that this is from a Hale manuscript of petitions in parliament of 4 Edward III at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine (25 November).
Date: [1330]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 2551
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.36b-37a (no.29) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 29 (summary of references)

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