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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alexander de Counvers (Convers), clerk. de Counvers (Convers) Alexander King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/155/7738
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/155/7738
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1314]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alexander de Counvers (Convers), clerk.
- Name(s)
- de Counvers (Convers), Alexander
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- Convers requests grace in the matter of the robbery from him of 1,000 marks of the king's money by Hirlaund and others when he was passing through Wales to cross to Ireland on business concerning the Scottish war.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- It seems to the council, if it pleases the king, that if the truth be such that he ought to do grace to him.2) Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Wales
- Denbigh, [Denbighshire, Wales]
- Denbigh Forest, [Denbighshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- John de Ard . . .
- Alcok de Hirlaund.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1314 as a writ of aid was issued to assist Nicholas de Audley in the capture of Vivian de Staundon for the robbery committed on the petitioner, and it is unlikely that the petition can be too distant in date from this (CPR 1313-17, p.234).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.234 (writ of aid to Nicholas de Audley for assistance in capturing the robber of the petitioner)
- Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.51 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209930/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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