Catalogue description Petitioners: Charles de Horton, son of Thomas de Horton. Name(s): de Horton,...

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Details of SC 8/116/5785
Reference: SC 8/116/5785
Description:
Petitioners: Charles de Horton, son of Thomas de Horton.
Name(s): de Horton, Charles
Addressees: King and Council.
Nature of request: Horton requests a writ of enquiry into his rights into various lands in Leigh and Tonbridge, now in the king's hands due to the forfeiture of Thomas Colepeper. Should his right be proved, he asks for restitution of the lands.
Nature of endorsement: [on face] [deleted][on dorse] He should show what he has of formedon, and justices should be assigned to enquire into the truth of this, and this should be certified to the King.
Places mentioned: Leigh, [Kent]; Tonbridge, [Kent].
People mentioned: Thomas de Horton, father of the petitioner; [Henry Wyth]; Thomas Colepeper (Culpeper, Culpepper).
Note: Dates to some point between the execution of Sir Thomas Culpeper in 1321 and the inquisition into this matter, ordered on 1 June 1323 (CIM 1307-49, no.644; C 145/91 no.31). The petition is damaged, but details can be supplied from the 1323 inquisition.
Date: [1321-1323]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 4238
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.644 (inquisition into the descent of these lands, following a subsequent petition by Amisse de Horton)

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