Catalogue description Petitioners: Edmund de Swynford (Swinford). Name(s): de Swynford (Swinford),...

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Details of SC 8/226/11278
Reference: SC 8/226/11278
Description:
Petitioners: Edmund de Swynford (Swinford).
Name(s): de Swynford (Swinford), Edmund
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Swynford requests a charter of pardon for the alienation of the manor of Harlaxton to him by Norman de Swinford without licence, and that he can have restitution of the manor as it has been taken into the king's hand and has been there for 7 years to his great impoverishment. It was found by Kelby that Warenne alienated the manor to Brewes without licence, whose son when he came of full age release all his right in it to Norman de Swinford.
Nature of endorsement: Let Brewes, his wife and his friends and the keeper of the manor be called before the council to inform the court for the king if they know any reason for which the king should not remove his hand.
Places mentioned: Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
People mentioned: Walter de Kelby, escheator in Lincolnshire; John de Garreine (Warenne), earl of Suffolk; John Brewes; John [de Brewes], son and heir of John de Brewes; Norman de Swynford (Swinford).
Note: The petition is dated to 1365 on the basis of the dating of the accompanying writ which seems to have been issued as a consequence of the petition (SC 8/226/11279).
Date: [1365]
Related material:

For the writ resulting from this petition see SC 8/226/11279
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

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), parliament of 1365, Appendix no. 7 (summary of petition and context)

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