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Arnold de Dureford (Durfort), knight de Dureford (Durfort) Arnold King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2145

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Reference
SC 8/43/2145
Date
[c. 1335]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold de Dureford (Durfort), knight
Name(s)
de Dureford (Durfort), Arnold
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Duchy of Guyenne, [France]
Nature of request
Arnold de Dureford, knight, whose brothers are beneficed in England by papal provision, states that they and their proctors cannot enjoy their benefices because of the malice of certain English people, and asks the king to order his ministers that the brothers and their proctors are to be maintained in right and reason, as his brothers have lost their rents in the Duchy of Guyenne by reason of the war.
Nature of endorsement
They are to have letters of protection.
Note
Dated on the guard to? c. 1335, with reference to CPR 1334-8 p.186, which is dated at Auckland, 12 December 1335. Galhard de Duro Forti is presumably one of the brothers mentioned, and this ratification of his estate may be a response to this petition. The note also refers to SC 8/43/2146, and continues 'but cf. also Pat. R. (1313-7) p.18': this, dated at Sheen, 30 September 1313, is one of a number of grants of protection (hard to tell which, if any, is relevant to this petition) to Galhard, going or (as in this case) staying overseas. It is not the first mention of him, so I cannot see that it is relevant, except to point up the length of his career, and the possibility that this petition is from the reign of Edward II. He is still alive in 1343 (CPR 1343-5 p.183, dated at Westminster, 3 December, where William de Kildesby, to whom the king had given the prebend of Wetwang, has recovered it successfully against his challenge).As CCR 1330-3 p.335 (Westminster, 3 October 1331) makes clear, there are two Arnold de Durefords, father and son, so this petitioner may not be the same as that of SC 8/43/2141 and SC 8/43/2146. CCR 1339-41 p.546 (Andover, 4 October 1340), reveals that the elder is dead by that time.
Related material

For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see no.2667 of C 81/162

For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see no.2701 of C 81/163

For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see no.696 of C 81/64

For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see SC 8/43/2141

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2538
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.186 (ratification of the estate of Galhard de Duro Forti as prebendary of Wetwang in York Minster)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062351/

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