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

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Details of SC 8/331/15692
Reference: SC 8/331/15692
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas Wake of Liddell.
Name(s): Wake, Thomas
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Wake recites the descent of the manors of Knaresborough and Boroughbridge from the time of Henry II, and requests restitution of the manors, since they were taken into the King's hand by King John while Eustace, son and heir of Robert de Stuteville, was in his mother's womb, and so could not claim his inheritance.1)
Nature of endorsement: Before the King.2) The treasurer and chamberlains were ordered to search the remembrances of the Exchequer to discover the reason the manors had come into the King's hand, when, in whose time, and if any of the King's progenitors were seised of the same manors before the time of King John, and it should likewise be searched in Chancery between now and the next Parliament.
Places mentioned: Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Pontesburgh (Boroughbridge), [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned: Henry [II], King of England; [Matilda], Empress; William Destotevill (de Stuteville); Richard [I], King of England; John, King of England; Robert Destotevill (de Stuteville), son and heir of William de Stuteville; Nicholas Destotevill (de Stuteville), brother of William de Stuteville and heir apparent of Robert de Stuteville; Eustace [de Stuteville], son and heir of Robert de Stuteville; Joan [de Stuteville], daughter and heir of Nicholas de Stuteville; Baldwin [Wake], son and heir of Joan de Stuteville; John [Wake], son and heir of Baldwin Wake and father of the petitioner.
Note: Dated on the guard to? c. 1347, although similar petitions are dated to 1327-35 and 1348 respectively (SC 8/12/575; SC 8/156/7790).
Date: [? c. 1347]
Related material:

For documents belonging to this petition see SC 8/331/15693

For a related petition see SC 8/156/7790

For a related petition see SC 8/12/575
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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