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William de Sutton, late sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. de Sutton...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4592

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Reference
SC 8/92/4592
Date
[1300-1301]
Description
Petitioners
William de Sutton, late sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Name(s)
de Sutton, William
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
Nature of request
Sutton requests allowance of a sum of £30 in his accounts for the view of Frankpledge of the honour of Richmond which the count of Brittany holds of the king, and which sum is paid at the Exchequer by the bailiffs of the count. He has been surcharged with the sum.
Nature of endorsement
The petition is answered according to the answer to that of Robert Hereward, now sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdonshire.
Places mentioned
Cambridgeshire
Huntingdonshire
Honour of Richmond.
People mentioned
Robert Hereward, sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Note
The petition can be precisely dated to the period October 1300 to April 1301, the term of Robert Hereward as sheriff, Hereward being noted as the current sheriff in the response. The petition is contemporary with a number of other petitions in SC 8, the guard of SC 8/92/4592 noting that this was enclosed in SC 8/1/32.
Related material

For transcript, see p.6 of PRO 31/7/153

For a petition by Hereward's successor see SC 8/1/32

For a petition by another sheriff of the counties on the same matter, see SC 8/159/7935

For a petition by the son of another earlier sheriff on the same matter see SC 8/83/4134

For a petition by the son of an earlier sheriff on the same matter see SC 8/83/4133

For a related document see SC 8/265/13202

For a petition by Sutton's successor see SC 8/92/4591

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 600
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149141/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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