Michael de Harcla (Harclaa, Hartley). de Harcla (Harclaa, Hartley) Michael King and...

Petitioners

Michael de Harcla (Harclaa, Hartley).

Name(s)

de Harcla (Harclaa, Hartley), Michael

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Harcla states that whereas the king granted to him at his parliament in the 33 year of his reign that he should have an allowance of his arrears which he was unable to levy while he was sheriff of Cumberland because of the burning and destruction made by the Scots, he is not able to have the allowance unless the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are certified of these damages and losses which he has suffered from the Scots. He requests that auditors should enquire of these damages and losses and certify the treasurer and barons so that he is able to have the allowance as the king previously granted.

Nature of endorsement

John de Insula and John de Kirkby are assigned by a writ of the Chancery to inquire into the contents of the petition.

Places mentioned

Cumberland.

People mentioned

John de Insula, John de Kirkeby (Kirkby).

For an earlier petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/9/430

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.549 (writ for a commission to examine Harcla's claims)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.68-9 (no.113) (two editions of earlier petition by this petitioner on the same subject)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp. 104-5 (no.70) (full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.467a, (no.35) (an edition of earlier petition by this petitioner on the same subject) & p.163a (Latin summary of an earlier petition by this petitioner on the same subject)