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Geoffrey de la Mare. Mare Geoffrey King and Council. Geoffrey de la Mare requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6295
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This record is about the Geoffrey de la Mare. Mare Geoffrey King and Council. Geoffrey de la Mare requests... dating from [c. 1324] 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 8/126/6295
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey de la Mare.
- Name(s)
- Mare, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- Geoffrey de la Mare requests that he be released from his imprisonment in the Tower of London, where he has been committed on a false charge by the sheriff of Yorkshire.
- Nature of endorsement
- Sue a writ in Chancery against the sheriff of Yorkshire that he certify to the King as to the reason for the imprisonment.
- Places mentioned
- Tower of London, [London]
- Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- Simon Ward (Warde), sheriff of Yorkshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Ward was sheriff of Yorkshire on three occasions between 1315 and 1323. A Geoffrey de la Mare is recorded as a prisoner in the Tower in October 1320 (CCR 1318-23, p. 268) and again in June 1324 (CCR 1323-7, p.125), while another of the men listed in 1324 (John Deyvill) also submitted a petition for release at some stage (SC 8/109/5437). Deyvill's petition states that he had been there for over two years, and if the petition was brought around 1324 (possibly prompting the action on the close roll), he may have been arrested in 1322 as a supporter of Thomas of Lancaster. Since Ward was sheriff at the time of the Battle of Boroughbridge, and fought there, de la Mare may also have been involved in those events. Alternatively he may be the man mentioned in 1320, and was still awaiting release.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.42 of PRO 31/7/100
For a similar petition from another prisoner in the Tower at this time see SC 8/109/5437
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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 5728
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.268 (order to pay wages to the constable of the Tower for keeping the petitioner and other prisoners)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.125 (order to the justices to summon the petitioner and other prisoners before them and do justice)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208470/
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