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William de Bereford. de Bereford William King. 1) Bereford requests that the chancellor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4051
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/82/4051
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Bereford.
- Name(s)
- de Bereford, William
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- 1) Bereford requests that the chancellor be ordered to make a writ de Liberate to the treasurer that his clerks of the Common Bench are paid their wages which were agreed by an agreement made with Bereford, as they are in arrears for 8 years, and they are put to great labour but have nothing to live on, and the treasurer will not pay them without a command from the king.2) [Added in a different hand] The clerks have laboured and served the king for a long time in the office of estreats under Chesterfield, but do not wish to continue if no regard is given to their fees. At another time at York, Chesterfield sued for the matter to be enquired of in the rolls of the Wardrobe, but Melton answered him that they had been lost at Stirling, and it was then answered that the petition was to be put before the king and his privy council at the next parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face]Coram ipso rege for W. de Bereford for his clerks of the Bench.[On dorse]1) Coram ipso rege for W. de Bereford.2) Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Stirling (Bannockburn), [Stirlingshire, Scotland).
- People mentioned
- William de Cestrefeld (Chesterfield), clerk of estreats
- [Walter Reynolds], Archbishop of Canterbury
- Hugh Despenser
- William de Meelton (Melton), [Archbishop of York].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A note at the beginning of file 82 states that all of the petitions in this file appear to belong to the year 1320. This certainly fits with this petition as the petition notes that William de Chesterfield had sued for the payment of the clerks' fees at the parliament at York and had been answered that the rolls of the Wardrobe had been lost at the battle of Bannockburn. The first parliament held at York after the battle was in May 1319, and the next parliament after this when this petition was to be coram rege was also at York in January 1320.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition without the later addition, and differently endorsed see SC 8/82/4052
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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 917
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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)
- Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. I, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LV, 1936), pp.cxlv-vi (entry c) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148591/
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