Catalogue description Petitioners: Thomas Wake of Liddel. Name(s): Wake, Thomas Addressees: King...

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Details of SC 8/12/579A
Reference: SC 8/12/579A
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas Wake of Liddel.
Name(s): Wake, Thomas
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Wake shows that William de Stuteville his ancestor was granted Knaresborough and Boroughbridge by Henry II, which gift was confirmed by successive kings to Stuteville and his ancestors. However, Henry III retained them from Eustace de Stuteville, and the Wakes to whom the Stuteville lands descended did not have the power to sue for the same. Wake requests that the king have regard to the charters of the kings and render the tenements to him, that he is not delayed from his right.
Nature of endorsement: Let the rolls and remembrances of the Exchequer and of the Treasury be searched, and if anything be found there concerning the lands contained in the petition of value for the king, or for the party they are to return it into Chancery. And let the rolls and remembrances of Chancery be searched from the time of King John and afterwards to see if Robert de Stuteville died seised of the lands now demanded, and if the lands were retained in the hand of the king on the livery made to Eustace of his inheritance, and by what cause, and if any other thing be found concerning this business which is of value to the king or the party. And these things having been searched . . .
Places mentioned: Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Boroughbridge, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Cottingham, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned: Henry II, King of England; William de Stotevill (Stuteville); Richard I, King of England; Robert de Stotevill (Stuteville), son and heir of William de Stuteville; John, King of England; Eustace de Stotevill (Stuteville), son and heir of Robert de Stuteville; Henry III, King of England; Nicholas [Wake], kinsman and heir of Eustace de Stuteville; John [Wake], son and heir of Nicholas Wake; Baldwin [Wake], son and heir of John Wake; John [Wake], son and heir of Baldwin Wake and father of the petitioner.
Note: If SC 8/12/575 does date to 1335, as the presence of a transcript in Rot. Parl. suggests, then the reference in that petition to this petition being made in the last parliament held at Westminster places this firmly in the parliament assembled there on 19 September 1334. But see also the possibility that SC 8/12/575 dates as early as 1327.
Date: [? 1334-? 1335]
Related material:

For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/171/8538

For a related document see SC 8/170/8466

For a related petition see SC 8/163/8145

For a related petition see SC 8/156/7790

For transcripts of charters by King Henry II, Richard I and John relating to this petition see SC 8/12/579B

For a later petition by the same petitioner reciting this petition in full see SC 8/12/575
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 8391
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), pp.93b-94a (no.19) (full edition of a later petition by the same petitioner reciting this petition in full)

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