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Details of SC 8/170/8484
Reference: SC 8/170/8484
Description:
Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named
Nature of request: 1) Copy of a writ of Edward I commanding the coroner of Northumberland to send the tenor of the inquisition taken by him into the death of Robert de Redware without delay.2) Copy of the inquisition taken at Stamfordham before Tyndale and Calhird where it was found by the jury of the neighbouring vills that William de Heddon and Isabel de Redware feloniously killed Robert de Redware, dumping the body in a sack at Elland Bridge, and that Henry, John and Agnes de Heddon helped to carry away Redware's goods.1)
Nature of endorsement: Coram toto consilio. And the inquisition was returned into Chancery before the council.2) The Chancellor, Brabazon, Berwick and Heigham should view the inquisition and do justice.3) Let it be ordered to the sheriff and coroners that the goods of the deceased that they arrested be delivered to the executors if there be any, and then they should be delivered to his children.
Places mentioned: Northumberland; Stamfordham, [Northumberland]; Fenwick, [Northumberland]; Heugh, [Northumberland]; Hawkwell, [Northumberland]; East Matfen, [Northumberland]; Ingoe, [Northumberland]; Black Heddon, [Northumberland]; Nesbit, [Northumberland]; Dalton, [Northumberland]; Eland Bridge, [Northumberland]; Westminster.
People mentioned: Edward I, King of England; William de Tyndale, coroner of Northumberland; Margaret [de Redwar (Redware)], one of the daughters of Robert de Redware; Denise [de Redwar (Redware)], one of the daughters of Robert de Redware; Robert de Redwar (Redware), late father of the petitioners; Isabel [de Redwar (Redware)], wife of Robert de Redware; William de Heddon; John Calhird, under-sheriff of Northumberland; Henry de Heddon, brother of William de Heddon; John de Heddon, brother of William de Heddon; Agnes de Heddon, sister of William de Heddon; [William Hamilton], chancellor; Roger le Brabanzon (Brabazon); John de Berwyk (Berwick); Roger de Heigham.
Note: The copies date with the petition to c. 1305 on the basis that the petition is fairly close in date to the copies of the writ and inquisition. The writ is dated in its dating clause to 18 March 1305 (33 Edw. I), and the inquisition is dated to 10 January 1305 (33 Edw. I).
Date: [c. 1305]
Related material:

For the petition which resulted in this writ and inquisition, see SC 8/261/13005

For the petition to which these copies were formerly appended, see SC 8/170/8483
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Latin
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.56-9 (no.44) (full edition)

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