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Adam de Wythiford, former Chamberlain of North Wales. de Wythiford Adam King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6299

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Reference
SC 8/126/6299
Date
[1335]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de Wythiford, former Chamberlain of North Wales.
Name(s)
de Wythiford, Adam
Addressees
King and Council.
Occupation
Chamberlain of North Wales
Nature of request
Adam de Wyithiford, former Chamberlain of North Wales, states that the King ordered him to send 500 marks into the wardrobe, which was to have been paid to Mortimer. He sent 100 marks of this with his clerk, William de Markeleye, but William was drowned in the Severn, and the money was lost. However, the sum was still charged against his account, and as a result Adam has been sent to prison on two occasions, where he still remains. He therefore requests that the sum be discharged, and that he be released from prison.
Nature of endorsement
Let the King be certified of the reason for which he is in prison.
Places mentioned
Wales
Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
London
River Severn
Montford, Shropshire
Fleet Prison, [London].
People mentioned
Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March, Justice of Wales
William de Markeleye, clerk.
Note
Dated to 1335 in Rot. Parl. II, p.91. The order to absolve the mainpernors was issued on 21 September 1334, their delivery of Adam to the Tower presumably being the start of his second term of imprisonment mentioned in the petition.
Related material

For a copy of an indenture formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/126/6298

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5736
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.212-13 (summary of petition)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.342-3 (order to absolve the mainpernors of Adam de Wythyford, as they have delivered him to the Tower to answer for his account)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.91b (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208474/

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