Catalogue description Petitioners: John de Warenne, Earl of Warenne. Name(s): de Warenne, Earl of...

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Details of SC 8/177/8830
Reference: SC 8/177/8830
Description:
Petitioners: John de Warenne, Earl of Warenne.
Name(s): de Warenne, Earl of Warenne, John
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Warenne requests the king to take council on the attempts of the earl of Lancaster to make Warenne's people of Bromfield and Yale attorn themselves to him by threats. He further requests letters to Lancaster ordering him to cease making threats to the people, and that further letters be sent to the justices of Wales and Chester and to the sheriffs there to be ready to defend Warenne's lands.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Bromfield, [Denbighshire, Wales]; Yale, [Denbighshire, Wales]; Worth, [Sussex].
People mentioned: [Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
Note: The petition dates to 1318 as the earl of Lancaster was ordered not to attempt anything against the king's peace in the lands on 16 June 1318, and by 1 January 1319 the earl of Lancaster received a licence to hold the lands for life (CCR 1313-18, p.554; CPR 1317-21, pp.263-4).
Date: [1318]
Related material:

For a related document, see SC 8/280/13971

For the related order, see SC 8/177/8831

For the petition of the people of Bromfield and Yale to Warenne, see SC 8/177/8829

For a related petition, see SC 8/174/8702B
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.296-7 (summary of petition)

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.554 (order to the earl of Lancaster not to attempt anything in breach of the king's peace in the matter of the lands and fees of the earl of Warenne)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.263-4 (licence for the earl of Lancaster to hold certain of the earl of Warenne's lands for life)

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