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? petitioner name(s) illegible Letter dated at Westminster, May 18, in the fifteenth...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/342

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This record is about the ? petitioner name(s) illegible Letter dated at Westminster, May 18, in the fifteenth... dating from [1324-1325] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/7/342
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Letter dated at Westminster, May 18, in the fifteenth year of the king's reign, to Roger de Belers, instructing him to reinstate Nicholas de Hungerford in the keepership of the forest of Duffield granted to him by Blanch queen of Navarre and confirmed by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, from which he has been expelled, and concerning which he has petitioned the king.
Nature of endorsement
None
Places mentioned
Duffield forest, [Derbyshire]
Eboracum (York)
People mentioned
Edward II, king of England
Roger de Beleres (Belers)
Nicholas de Hungerford
Blanche, queen of Navarre
Edmund, earl of Lancaster and Derby
Thomas, earl of Lancaster
Note
The letters are dated to 1324-1325 on the basis of the dating of the petition with which the letters were enclosed (SC 8/7/340). This letter is dated at York, 18 May, in the fifteenth year of the king's reign (1322), like CCR 1318-1323, p.449. The name York replaces Westminster, which has been deleted.
Related material

For a near-duplicate of these letters patent see SC 8/7/344

For letters patent duplicating this letter see SC 8/7/341

For a related petition see SC 8/7/340

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4110
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.449 (enrolment of this letter, but dated at York, May 18 1322)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.418a, no. 4 (full edition of a later copy of a related document)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060465/

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