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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter de Huntingfield, Abbot of Colchester. de Huntingfield Walter King and Council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/104/5151
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This record is about the Walter de Huntingfield, Abbot of Colchester. de Huntingfield Walter King and Council... dating from [c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/104/5151
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Huntingfield, Abbot of Colchester.
- Name(s)
- de Huntingfield, Walter
- Addressees
- King and Council
- Occupation
- Abbot of Colchester
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks recovery of a daily payment. He shows that King Henry granted by charter 4d. each day from Writtle in Essex, for the maintenance of two chantry monks for the souls of kings (both living and dead), in a place called Bedesmannsbergh in Writtle, from which money the said monks gave their service in the aforesaid manor until the time that Robert Bruce, King of Scots, wrongly had seisin of the manor, and afterwards the earl of Hereford.
- Nature of endorsement
- Show this in chancery, that he has his request, and let him have an enquiry into the truth, and beyond this make right etc.Coram Rege ...
- Places mentioned
- Colchester, [Essex]
- Writtle, [Essex].
- People mentioned
- Henry III, King of England
- Robert I, King of Scotland
- [Humphrey de Bohun], Earl of Hereford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Notes on the guard date this petition to c. 1320 on internal evidence.
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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 2181
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149721/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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