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William de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield). de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield) William King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/98/4887

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This record is about the William de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield). de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield) William King... dating from [1307-1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/98/4887
Date
[1307-1327]
Description
Petitioners
William de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield).
Name(s)
de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield), William
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
[Edward I], King of England
W [William] de Bereford.
Nature of request
[This petition is almost completely illegible.] To the King and council William de Chestrefeld requests . . . King his father as clerk in continual labour . . . of pleas for the use of the King . . . labour is lost . . . attests if their . . . by the testimony of the said W. de Bereford . . . that our lord the King, if he please, might be willing to order that he might have a writ of Chancery . . . . openly to the said W. de Bereford for his clerk . . .. Moreover the said William requests of our lord the King . . . the King in various counties at their own cost . . . of which the Treasurer, by the testimony of the said W. de Bereford . . . that our lord the King, if he please, might be willing to order that they might have a writ to the Treasurer to be . . . according to reason.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Note
The mention of William de Bereford (Justice of the Common Pleas 1292, 1294, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1309, died 1326) places this petition in the reign of Edward II. The mention of the King's father might suggest the early years of the reign.
Related material

For a transcript of a related writ and request concerning debts owed to the petitioner, see SC 8/342/16119

For another petition by the same petitioner apparently on the same matters, see SC 8/323/E600

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1568
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.61 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to make satisfaction to Chesterfield)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149454/

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