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Robert de Walkefare. de Walkefare Robert King and council. Walkefare requests that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/152/7583
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/152/7583
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Walkefare.
- Name(s)
- de Walkefare, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Walkefare requests that the grant to him of the keeping of the castle of Beaumaris be treated as any other repeal of the grants made by Mortimer which were made at the parliament held at Westminster, as he received the keeping for his labour and expenses when the earl of March was delivered into his custody following his taking at Nottingham. Elsfield, to whom Mortimer granted the keeping is now troubling him.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the petitioner alleges that he is in process, he is to aid himself by a response that will help him.
- Places mentioned
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
- London
- Tower of London, London
- Westminster
- Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales]
- Anglesey, [Wales]
- Dover, [Kent]
- Chester, [Cheshire].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mortimer, earl of March
- William Mountagu
- Master Arnold Dufford
- Gilbert de Ellesfeld (Elsfield)
- Bartholomew de Burghassh (Burgherssh)
- Oliver de Ingham
- Robert de Ardern
- Richard Haukeslowe, chirographer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1333 as a confirmation of the grant to Walkefare was made on 8 June 1333, and this was probably as a result of this petition (CPR 1330-4, p.465).
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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
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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.253-4 (full summary of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.465 (confirmation of the grant to Walkefare)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209770/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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