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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Burstowe formerly chamberlain of Chester. de Burstowe William King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/6/267
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/6/267
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1321-1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Burstowe formerly chamberlain of Chester.
- Name(s)
- de Burstowe, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- chamberlain of Chester
- Nature of request
- William de Burstowe states that the king ordered his son, the earl of Chester, by letters dated at Clipstone on 5 September in the twelfth year of his reign, to order his chamberlain of Chester to find for John de Sapi, then justiciar of Chester, his reasonable costs for stopping the disturbance which had arisen between the people of Chester (or Cheshire) and the people of the county of Cheshire, by force if the parties refused to obey or to submit to justice according to the law and the usages of those parts, and the earl of Chester sent Richard Damori, then his bachelor, with the justiciar to Cheshire, and Richard ordered William de Burstowe, who was then chamberlain of Chester, on behalf of the king, and of his son, to pay the justiciar according to the aforesaid command and to give him a warrant from the son. William paid him £72, 7 shillings 11 pence, for which he has his letters patent attesting the receipt, but the auditors of William's account have laid it against him as a net debt, and so he has been under arrest in the Fleet prison for a year and a half. He requests grace and a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He has a writ pending on this in the Exchequer, and should sue there.
- Places mentioned
- Clypston (Clipstone), [Nottinghamshire]
- Cheshire.
- People mentioned
- Edward [II], King of England
- [Edward of Windsor] earl of Chester, son of King Edward II
- Edward [III, King of England]
- John de Sapi (Sapy), justiciar of Chester
- People of Chester (people of Cheshire)
- Foreign people of Cheshire
- Richard Damori (Damory).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From CPR 1317-1321, Edward II was at Clipstone in the September of the twelfth year of his reign. There is no evidence of a letter patent or letter close connected with this petition and dated September 5, however.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 537
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.401b-402a, no.85 (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.85 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060387/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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