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Renaud de Rokesle, son of Roger de Rokesle. de Rokesle Renaud King and council. Rokesle...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/70/3468

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Reference
SC 8/70/3468
Date
[c. 1315]
Description
Petitioners
Renaud de Rokesle, son of Roger de Rokesle.
Name(s)
de Rokesle, Renaud
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Rokesle requests that a writ be ordered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to have regard for the process residing in the Exchequer, and hear the reasons for the king and for Rokesle, and that he be able to show by the enrolment and process in the Exchequer and by other reasons that neither he nor the land tenants be aggrieved for the debt and accounts owed by Gregory de Rokesle to the king from the time when he was keeper of the exchanges of the Tower of London and Canterbury.
Nature of endorsement
He should have a writ according to his petition.
Places mentioned
London
Canterbury, [Kent].
People mentioned
Roger de Rokesle, father of the petitioner
Gregory de Rokesle
John de Rokesle
John de Bankewelle.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1315 on the basis that another petition from the executors of Gregory de Rokesle was presented at the Hillary parliament in 8 Edward II (cf. title on Rot. Parl. vol I, p.314; and petition on p.326a (no.184))
Related material

For a related document see SC 8/318/E329

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6931
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.326a (no.184) (another petition concerning Gregory de Rokesle)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107239/

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