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John de Berkele (Berkeley) of Dursley. de Berkele (Berkeley) John King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/157/7832
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This record is about the John de Berkele (Berkeley) of Dursley. de Berkele (Berkeley) John King and council.... dating from [c. 1330-c. 1331] 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 8/157/7832
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330-c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Berkele (Berkeley) of Dursley.
- Name(s)
- de Berkele (Berkeley), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- John de Berkele requests remedy in his dispute with Sir Thomas Berkeley, who has used his lordship and his office as keeper of the peace in Gloucestershire to pursue the petitioner, and against whom there is no relief at law since the sheriffs, bailiffs and other ministers of the county are all in receipt of his robes and fees and because he has recently, through the assistance of Sir Roger Mortimer, purchased the franchise of return of writs in Berkeley hundred.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the roll of chancery be viewed. And let this petition be sent before the prelates, earls and barons assigned to survey and examine the grants made by the king.
- Places mentioned
- Dursley, Gloucestershire
- Newton, Gloucestershire
- Berkeley hundred, [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- Sir Thomas de Berkele (Berkeley) of Berkeley
- Roger Mortimer, [earl of March].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated c. 1330-c. 1331 by Saul, Knights and Esquires, p. 266 (no. 2). The dispute between the two families was certainly current in 1332 when Thomas de Berkeley was making complaints against John de Berkeley (CPR 1330-4, p.354).
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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 III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.354 (complaint by Thomas de Berkeley of John de Berkeley)
- Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, N. Saul, (Clarendon Press, 1981), p.266 (no. 2) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210024/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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