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? No Petitioner named Copy of letters patent of Edward III, dated at Westminster...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/128/6394

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of letters patent of Edward III, dated at Westminster... dating from [1344] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/128/6394
Date
[1344]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of letters patent of Edward III, dated at Westminster 18 February 1341, promising repayment at Easter and Michaelmas next of 19 marks 13s 1d owed to the Abbot and convent of Newbo for 1 sack and 24 stones of wool taken from them by Roger de Wolsthorp and his colleagues [collectors of wool in Kesteven], for the King's use.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Kesteven, Lincolnshire
Newbo, [Lincolnshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
[Edward III], King of England
Roger de Wolsthorp
Abbot and Convent of Newbo.
Note
This is evidently the copy of this patent formerly attached to the petition seeking repayment now at SC 8/128/6393, which appears to have been presented to the parliament of June 1344.
Related material

For the petition to which this document was formerly attached see SC 8/128/6394

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5988
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1340-1343, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.130 (calendar of these letters patent)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208572/

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