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Executors of John de Merkingfeld (Markingfield), former executor of William de Hamelton....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/124/6194
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This record is about the Executors of John de Merkingfeld (Markingfield), former executor of William de Hamelton.... dating from [c. 1327] 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 8/124/6194
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Executors of John de Merkingfeld (Markingfield), former executor of William de Hamelton.
- Name(s)
- de Merkingfeld (Markingfield), John
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The executors state that the King has demanded of them various debts owed to him and his father by Merkingfeld and Hamelton. However they also state that the King and his father owed various debts to Merkingfeld and Hamelton, and therefore ask for a writ to the Treasurer to allow those debts against those owed to the King, and that an assignment be made in the North, at York or wherever the King pleases, to cover any sums outstanding.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the Treasurer and Barons that they view those who have the debt, and make a search as to what they owe to the King, and what the King owes to them, and certify this to the King.Coram Domino Rege.
- Places mentioned
- York.
- People mentioned
- William de Hamelton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c.1327, with reference to SC 8/165/8241, another petition from an executor of Hamelton and an executor of Merkingfeld requesting such an exemption. The allowance requested in that petition was ordered on 22 February 1327, and it seems likely that the present petition dates from the same or a similar time (or possibly slightly earlier, given that this petition does not contain the precise figures given in the other petition). However, the executors were still appointing attorneys to prosecute their cases in July 1329. John de Merkingfeld, chancellor of the Exchequer 1310-12, was dead by 1323.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition expressly from the executors of Hamelton see SC 8/165/8241
For transcript, see no.79 of PRO 31/7/97
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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 5413
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.43 (order to the Exchequer to make allowance to the executors of Hamelton of debts owed to the King against debts owed to Hamelton) & p.559 (appointment by the executors of Merkingfeld and Hamelton of attorneys to prosecute all recognisances made to them in Chancery)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208367/
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