Catalogue description Petitioners: Richard Trotter. Name(s): Trotter, Richard Addressees: King. ...

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Details of SC 8/178/8866
Reference: SC 8/178/8866
Description:
Petitioners: Richard Trotter.
Name(s): Trotter, Richard
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Trotter requests an increase of 1d. a day for his wages for the office of being one of the keepers of the wood [launde] of Plumpton in the forest of Inglewood, and that he grant that he may enclose 10 acres of land between Todilgill and the Black Beck, and between the close of Morton and Wolloaks, whereof the king has not had a profit, so that he can build a little lodge to live in, as he only has the wages for the office to live on as he had to pay a £40 ransom because he and his goods and chattels were taken by the Scots on the last chevauchee of the earl of Douglas.
Nature of endorsement: [On face].Committed to the council.[On dorse].He should have a writ of ad quod damnum on the second point of this.
Places mentioned: Gascony, [France]; Plumpton, [Cumberland]; Inglewood forest, [Cumberland]; Penrith, [Cumberland]; Scotland; Todilgill [unidentified], [Cumberland]; Black Beck, [Cumberland]; Morton, [Cumberland]; Wollakes (Wooloaks), [Cumberland]; Scotland.
People mentioned: [William Douglas], earl of Douglas.
Note: The petition dates to 1381 as the petitioner was granted the right to enclose the 10 acres on 19 April 1381 (CPR 1377-81, p.620). The petition has similar responses on the face as SC 8/178/8863 and 7, so that it is likely that all three are contemporary.
Date: [1381]
Related material:

For the inquisition ad quod damnum, see C 143/397/6
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.620 (grant that the petitioner may enclose the 10 acres)

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