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William de Weregrave. de Weregrave William King and council. William de Weregrave...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/149/7427
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/149/7427
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1312]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Weregrave.
- Name(s)
- de Weregrave, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- William de Weregrave states that for his service to the King and his father, the King granted him the office of Coroner in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire, to hold during pleasure, for which he has his charter (copied under the petition); but that John de Bristow has expelled him from that office. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Chamberlain of Scotland is to be ordered by a writ of Chancery that, when he has examined William's warrant for the aforesaid office, he is to let him have the office back, unless he has been removed from it for a reasonable and sufficient cause etc.
- Places mentioned
- Wales
- Gascony, [France]
- Scotland
- Eskdale, Dumfriesshire, [Scotland]
- Liddle castle, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- [Edward I], King of England
- John de Bristow (Birstol).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.106 of PRO 31/7/96
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 and Latin
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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. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.390 (order to grant this office to John de Bristow, as he complains that he has been removed from it by a grant to William de Weregrave)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.57 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of August 1312, SC 9/17, item 5 (edition and translation of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209612/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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