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Nicholas de Cheynne, formerly sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. de Cheynne Nicholas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/206

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Reference
SC 8/5/206
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas de Cheynne, formerly sheriff of Somerset and Dorset.
Name(s)
de Cheynne, Nicholas
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
sheriff of Somerset and Dorset
Nature of request
Nicholas de Cheynne requests a remedy concerning various sums of money.1) He was ordered by writ of the king to receive various quantities of various cereals and pulses from various bishops and other magnates, and has been charged the price of 21 quarters for 20. He has also been charged for larger quantities of specific kinds of victual than he received, both from the bishop of Winchester and the bishop of Bath and Wells.2) He had to store these provisions in rented buildings at Bridgwater for a year and a quarter before the king gave him commands concerning them, and cannot receive an allowance in the wardrobe for this.3) He cannot receive an allowance in the wardrobe for the costs of 6 rope-makers travelling from Bridport to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, although a writ of the king promised him costs and carriages of issues of his bailiwick.4) He is owed £20 sterling by John de Kyngeston through a recognizance made in the exchequer, which promised that he would pay this long ago, and that if he did not, the money would be levied from his lands and tenements, which are now in the king's hands.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.The keeper of the wardrobe is to be ordered to charge the sheriff only for what he has received through indentures; and the money for the twenty-first quarter is to be balanced against the account for the price of the corn which he has made with his creditors.With regard to the recognizance, he is to sue in the Exchequer.
Places mentioned
Bridgewater, [Somerset]
Bridport, [Dorset]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
bishop of Winchester
[John Droxford] bishop of Bath and Wells
John de Kyngeston.
Note
One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., dated to 1321-1322. PROME::Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415 confirms that they appear to belong to these years.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1656
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.391a-b, no.22 (full edition of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 22 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060326/

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