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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham. Hatfield Thomas King and Council. Bishop of Durham...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/105/5217
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/105/5217
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1379-1384]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham.
- Name(s)
- Hatfield, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Durham
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks the king to summon William de Windsor and Alice Perrers before king and council, and to provide a remedy. He states that he loaned the king's grandfather 4000 marks for great and pressing business during the time that the bishop of Exeter and Scrope were treasurers, for which he had a dozen tallies from the said treasurers, for payment of which he long sued but obtained nothing, whereon Perrers, then staying with the king's grandfather as one of his household, came to the petitioner at his manor of Charing in Middlesex in October 1376: when he begged Alice to help him obtain payment of the said 4000 marks, and this she promised him, whereon the petitioner handed over all the tallies. Because she owed the king's grandfather great sums of money she sued in the royal receipt and delivered there two of the said tallies standing in the petitioner's name without warrant or authority from him, neither in person nor by attorney, for which delivery of tallies she was allowed 1000 marks of her own debt to the king in money received from the treasury, to the deceit of the king's court and the great hardship of the petitioner and delay in the repayment of the rest of the debt.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Charing, [Middlesex].
- People mentioned
- Edward III, King of England
- [Thomas Brantingham], Bishop of Exeter, lately Treasurer
- Richard Scrope, lately Treasurer
- Alice Perrers
- William de Windsor, husband of Alice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp.220-2, to c. 1377-c. 1381. However, petitions referring to Alice Perrers as the wife of William Windsor do not generally occur until after the revelation of their marriage in the parliament of 1379, and it is more likely to date between that date and Windsor's own death in 1384
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition concerning Hatfield's loans to Edward III see SC 8/107/5317
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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 2597
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.220-2 (no.162) (full edition of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149787/
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