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Walter de Hamton de Hamton Walter King and council Hamton requests remedy and a writ...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2491
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/50/2491
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334-1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Hamton
- Name(s)
- de Hamton, Walter
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Hamton requests remedy and a writ to the sheriff to cease the injury done to him concerning a statute merchant falsely made binding him until the truth of this can be enquired of. Moniword had the keeping of one piece of the seal of statute merchant and having acquired the keeping of the other part has bound Hamton falsely and without his knowledge in a sum of money and sealed it in Hamton's name. Moniword now by virtue of this obligation according to the statute merchant has sued to take Hamton's body so that he dare not live in his country and to have his lands and tenements in Hereford to levy the money.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by writ of Chancery containing the effect of this petition to the justices assigned to hold the pleas of the king before whom the writ of the taking of his body is returnable, that they hear the complaint of Hamton, and they make to come before them Moniword with the piece of the seal that he has before him, and also those who have the keeping of the other piece of the seal together with their rolls, and make to examine and enquire in all ways that they are able if Moniword on the day that the recognizance was made had both the pieces of the seal before him, and of other matters touching the business, and that they do right. And if Hamton finds sufficient mainpernors to answer the debt if this is adjudged, and to do what the court will adjudge then they are to surcease the pursuit of his body and also his lands taken concerning this business.
- Places mentioned
- Hereford, [Herefordshire]
- People mentioned
- Richard de Moniword of the Hay
- William de Horleton
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to the period 1334-1337 as Moniword received a grant of the custody of the small piece of the seal on 23 September 1334, and he had been arrested for his various unlawful acts by March 1337 (CPR 1334-8, pp.12, 442).
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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 3947
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.12 (grant to Moniword of the custody of the smaller part of the seal used for recognisances in Hereford) & p.442 (writ to the mayor, bailiffs and good men of Hereford that they arrest those who had maintain Moniword who has now been imprisoned)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062705/
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