Catalogue description Petitioners: Prior and convent of King's Langley. Addressees: King. Nature...

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Details of SC 8/250/12488
Reference: SC 8/250/12488
Description:
Petitioners: Prior and convent of King's Langley.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The prior and convent of King's Langley request that the King grant them the livestock, goods and chattels of the manors of Preston, Overland and Elmstone which they leased to Burley for a certain yearly rent, and which were seized into the King's hands by the escheator of Kent by Burley's forfeiture. By the council's advice the livestock, goods and chattels were delivered to the petitioners on condition that if they were adjudged to belong to the King, the petitioners would surrender them, and Hayward and Gilot, their pledges, were bound thereon in Chancery.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Langley (King's Langley), [Hertfordshire]; Preston, Kent; Overland, Kent; Elmstone, Kent; London.
People mentioned: Simon de Burley; Thomas Hayward of London, vintner; William Gilot of London, butcher.
Note: Dated on the guard to 1390, since this is the date of the Chancery warrant with which it was formerly enclosed (C 81/514 no.6177).
Date: [1390]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/250/12500

For the Chancery writ in which it was formerly enclosed see no.6177 of C 81/514
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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