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Robert Power. Power Robert King's council. Robert Power makes two requests:1) He...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/67/3347
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/67/3347
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1323]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Power.
- Name(s)
- Power, Robert
- Addressees
- King's council.
- Nature of request
- Robert Power makes two requests:1) He states that he was ordered to go to North Wales to take up the office of Chamberlain there, but that the current Chamberlain cannot be found to hand over his office, apparently because he fears that he will be arrested to come to account. He asks the council to ordain on this.2) He asks that all the bailiwicks and farms in North Wales with which the Chamberlain ought to be charged might be leased at the receipt of Caernarfon at as high a rate as possible, in the presence of the Justiciar or his lieutenant, of the Chamberlain and of the Comptroller; and that security might be found there: as he has been told that that is how it used to be done.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- North Wales
- Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- The Chamberlain of North Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1318-23 p.649 and CFR 1319-27 p.208 are both dated 11 May 1323, and the petition would therefore seem to date to that year.
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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 6604
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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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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.102 (calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.649 (order to the Justiciar of Wales to let the petitioner have the things belonging to the office of Chamberlain of North Wales, as the previous Chamberlain is not found to deliver them to him)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. III, Edw II, 1319-1327, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.208 (appointment of Robert Power as chamberlain of North Wales)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107118/
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