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Details of SC 8/275/13738
Reference: SC 8/275/13738
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret de Clare, widow of Edmund of Almaine, Earl of Cornwall.
Name(s): de Clare, Margaret
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Clare requests that she is able to have tallage from her people in the manors that she holds in dower of the ancient demesne, and that any sums already collected be paid to her.
Nature of endorsement: She is to have a writ of Chancery for her tallage, and another writ to those assigned to collect the tallage that they are not to meddle with it, and to restore any sums collected to her.
People mentioned: Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall, late husband of the petitioner.
Note: The petition is dated to 1305 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the section of the parliament roll which was produced for the Lent parliament of 1305 (PROME, roll 12, Introduction, and Appendix, no.255).
Date: [1305]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.154-5 (no.245) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.171b (no.103) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)

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), roll 12, appendix, no.255 (full edition and translation)

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