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Roger de Horseleye (Horsley). de Horseleye (Horsley) Roger King Horseleye requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/83/4119

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This record is about the Roger de Horseleye (Horsley). de Horseleye (Horsley) Roger King Horseleye requests... dating from [c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/83/4119
Date
[c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Horseleye (Horsley).
Name(s)
de Horseleye (Horsley), Roger
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Horseleye requests payment for the time that he was keeper of Berwick and Bamburgh castles, and that the king will ordain his will on the keeping of Bamburgh castle, and he complains that he has not received anything from a grant of 40 marks a year from the bailiwick of Bamburgh as the king has pardoned the men there.
Nature of endorsement
It is to be expedited.
Places mentioned
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Bamburgh, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
James de Broghton (Broughton), late Chamberlain of Scotland.
Note
The petitioner received the grant of 40 marks a year from the issues of Bamburgh Castle on 23 November 1318 (CPR 1317-21, p.239). The petition is likely to date to 1320 or thereafter so that a date of c. 1320 has been adopted.
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/52/2600

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4312
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.162-3 (no.137) (full edition of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.239 (grant of the 40 mark annuity to the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148661/

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