Catalogue description Petitioners: John Fitz Wauter (FitzWalter). Name(s): Fitz Wauter (FitzWalter),...

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Details of SC 8/311/15549
Reference: SC 8/311/15549
Description:
Petitioners: John Fitz Wauter (FitzWalter).
Name(s): Fitz Wauter (FitzWalter), John
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: [The right-hand side of the petition is missing] FitzWalter requests a clearer declaration of the law concerning lands taken as the King's escheat when a man who holds of different lords forfeits his land in war. When the King regrants such land in fee simple it is unclear of whom the land is held.
Nature of endorsement: Before the King and great council.
Note: Printed in Rot. Parl., vol. II, p. 180a (no. 19) among petitions from the parliament of January 1348, but given in Sayles, Functions, p. 453 among documents relating to the parliament of March 1348.
Date: [1348]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
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), p.180a (no.19) (edition of petition)

The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), p.453 (no.ii) (translation of petition)

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