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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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This record is about the Adam de Wythiford, former Chamberlain of North Wales. de Wythiford Adam King and... dating from [1335] 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 8/126/6299
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1335]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a copy of an indenture formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/126/6298
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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 5736
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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 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208474/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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