Catalogue description Petitioners: Edmund Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel Name(s): Fitz Alan, Earl of...

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Details of SC 8/31/1507
Reference: SC 8/31/1507
Description:
Petitioners: Edmund Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel
Name(s): Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, Edmund
Addressees: King's council
Nature of request: Edmund, Earl of Arundel, makes two requests:1) He requests a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to search the rolls of the Exchequer to find what debts he owes the king, both from his ancestors' debts and his own.2) He requests a writ to inform the king of the reason for the taking into his hand by John de Berewyk and his companions, justices in Eyre in Shropshire, of Purslow hundred, which belonged to Richard, formerly Earl of Arundel, his father.
Nature of endorsement: Writs are to be issued on each petition.It was taken into our hand and is still in our hand.
Places mentioned: Shropshire; Purslow hundred, Shropshire
People mentioned: John de Berewyk (Berwick), justice; Richard [Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel
Note: CPR 1301-7 p.521 is dated at Carlisle, 24 April 1307, and would appear to be in response to this petition.CCR 1302-7 p.375 and p.377 are both dated at Wolvesey, 15 April 1306 - giving an earliest possible date for the petition.CCR 1307-13 p.308 is dated at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 28 April, 1311, and states that Edward I recovered the hundred by judgment of the court before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, because of a default by Richard Earl of Arundel, but that Edward II restored it to Edmund Earl of Arundel in the first year of his reign.
Date: [c. 1307]
Related material:

A contemporary petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/31/1508
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 28
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.375 (order to give Edmund, Earl of Arundel seisin of the lands of his inheritance (also on p.377))

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.308 (order to discharge the sheriff of Shropshire of 10 marks yearly for the hundred of Purslow, restored to Edmund Earl of Arundel in the first year of the king's reign)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.521 (pardon to Edmund, Earl of Arundel, of various debts owed by him and his ancestors)

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