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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Sparsalte. de Sparsalte William King and council. William de Sparsalte...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/332
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/7/332
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Sparsalte.
- Name(s)
- de Sparsalte, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- William de Sparsalte complains that on St Laurence's day in the fifteenth year of the king's reign, Richard de la Sale, Henry Picard, John Fornot, Walter, bailiff of Chilton, Robert Grey, John le Kynge, John le Teyntour, William de Stoke, Robert Dommedou and many others came to Hungerford with force and arms, seized William, with horses and servants of his, and took him to Chilton, to Henry Tyeys' manor, where they held him in prison for two days and a night. They also took goods and armour from him, to the value of twenty pounds, with damages of forty pounds. He requests grace and a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have a writ of trespass in Chancery and sue according to the law etc.
- Places mentioned
- Hongerford (Hungerford), [Berkshire]
- Chilton, [Berkshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard de la Sale of Hungerford
- Henry Picard
- John Fornot
- Walter, bailiff of Chilton
- Robert Grey
- John le Kynge (King)
- John le Teyntour (Dyer)
- William de Stoke
- Robert Dommedou
- Henry Tyeys.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1322 as the petitioner complains of the people of Henry Tyes, one of the rebels executed in the aftermath of the failed baronial revolt.One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
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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 7544
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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), p.414b, no. 158 (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. 158 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060455/
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