1298-12-21, York

Order date: inferred Regnal year 27 Edward I · Edward I · Close Rolls · Membrane 20

⚙ Machine OCR · unverified

Dated in source: “Dec. 21” · Place: York (Yorkshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 20 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger le Lung, who is insufficiently qualified for further exercising the office of coroner in that county, as the king learns upon trustworthy testimony. By K. on the information of J. de Benstede.

📄 Compare the scanned page Leaf 248 · printed p.228

This text was read by machine from the public-domain scan below. Read the original to check any word — the marginal date/place column sits to the left of the body.

Scanned image of leaf 248, printed page 228

Open the full page in the Internet Archive reader →

View on the Internet Archive → Public-domain source; full text via the Internet Archive.

People named

Also at York

All entries here →

Same act type

Browse other order acts under Edward I.

See them →

Location

Flag a data issue

Spotted an error — a wrong date or place, a misread text, people wrongly combined or split? Reports keep the corpus trustworthy.