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Ford

County: Wiltshire. 20 entries. Search all entries for this place →

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The printed indexes cite Ford in 75 entries beyond those issued here — lands, churches and commissions touching the place.

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Summary

12Documents
0Discrete acts
15People named
1285-12-15 – 1456-09-13Date range

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  1. 1285-12-15 date: inferred

    To the justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Cumberland. Order not to molest in their eyre Robert Brus, lord of Annandale, and John de Seyton, his knight, for their trespass in taking in the king's forest of In…

  2. 1296-01-22 date: inferred

    To the sheriff of Devon. Order to permit Welshmen who are in the _king s faith and peace to come into his bailiwick with their goods without molestation, and to permit them to sell their goods exposed for sale and to mak…

  3. 1296-01-22 date: inferred

    The like to the sheriffs of Somerset, Dorset, Gloucester and Cornwall.…

  4. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    what was ordained by the bishop and others of the king's council, wherefore the king ordered by his writs the sheriff of Northumberland and his bailiff of Tyndale to cause to be delivered to the bishop the lands of all s…

  5. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    Memorandum, that,.on Saturday after the Annunciation, the chancellor returned to the court at Mertok, and there received the king's seal from William de Hamelton, who had it in his custody during the chancellor's absence…

  6. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Adam de Baggetrip, deceased. To John de Lythegr[eyns], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the lands that a…

  7. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit William de Hockcle and William son of William de Monte Rivelli of 100s. at which the former was amerced before Roger Lestrange (Eztraneo) and his fellows, jus…

  8. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    with what was ordained by the bishop and others of the king's council, wherefore the king ordered by his writs the sheriff of Northumberland and his bailiff of Tyndale to cause to be delivered to the bishop the lands of …

  9. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    Memorandum, that, on Saturday after the Annunciation, the chancellor returned to the court at Mertok, and there received the king's seal from vie de Hamelton, who had it in his custody during the chancellor's absence.…

  10. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Adam de Baggetrip, deceased. To John de Lythegr[eyns], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the lands that a…

  11. 1297-04-01 date: inferred

    Order to acquit William de Hockele and William son of William de Monte Rivelli of 100s. at which the former was amerced before Roger Lestrange (Eztraneo) and his fellows, justices last in eyre for pleas of the Forest in …

  12. 1456-09-13 date: inferred

    Edmund Ingaldesthorp, knight; Middlesex ; Norfolk and Suffolk ; Cambridge; Essex; Surrey; Southampton ; Gloucester ; York.…

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