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William de Kellawe (Kelloe) of Thornley. de Kellawe (Kelloe) William King and Council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/119/5938

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Reference
SC 8/119/5938
Date
[c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
William de Kellawe (Kelloe) of Thornley.
Name(s)
de Kellawe (Kelloe), William
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Kellawe states that, with the assent of the bishopric of Durham, he took £70 of William de Hebburn held at Durham to pay to Robert de Bruce for their safety. However, Hebburn has prosecuted him for recovery of the money and damages during the last vacancy, for which he is in prison. Since the money was taken for the common good, he asks that the money be raised from the community, so that he can be released, and that he be bailed until this is done.
Nature of endorsement
Let a writ be sent to the Bishop that he should call before him the men of the region which was saved through the payment of this money, and William de Kellawe, and if it found that William took the money with common consent of the people for their salvation, as supposed in this petition, then justice should be done to William immediately, as the case should not have come to the King.
Places mentioned
Thornley, [County Durham]
Durham diocese.
People mentioned
William de Heberme (Hebburn)
Robert de Brus (Bruce)
Robert de Sapy, justice
Adam de Brom, justice
Adam de Bowes, justice.
Note
Dated by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp. 175-7, to c. 1318, with reference to 'Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense', vol. iv, pp.159-65. The vacancy followed the death of Bishop Richard Kellaw on 9 October 1316, the justices named being the royal administrators appointed during that period.
Related material

For transcript, see no.46 of PRO 31/7/95

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4666
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.175-7 (no.130) (full edition of petition and detailed discussion of the events)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150622/

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