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Henry de Shirokes, late chamberlain of North Wales. de Shirokes Henry King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/157/7848
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/157/7848
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Henry de Shirokes, late chamberlain of North Wales.
- Name(s)
- de Shirokes, Henry
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- chamberlain of North Wales
- Nature of request
- 1) Shirokes requests that he should be discharged of the arrears from his time as chamberlain, or that those sheriffs, bailiffs and farmers arrested by the justice be delivered to him.2) Shirokes request that he be allowed his accustomed wages with his robes for him and his clerks for all the time he was keeper of victuals.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Concerning the first petition, let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer by writ containing the effect of the petition, and if the matter is true then they are to discharge him as reason demands.2) Concerning the second petition, let the allowances made to such victuallers be viewed, and they are to make allowance as has been done for other keepers of victuals.
- Places mentioned
- North Wales
- Chirk, [Denbighshire, Wales]
- Caernarfonshire, [Wales]
- Anglesey, [Wales]
- Merioneth, [Wales]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer) of Chirk, justice of Wales
- Henry Somer, lieutenant
- John de Sapy, sheriff of Caernarfon
- John de Ereswell, lieutenant
- Eygnon ap Yevan, sheriff of Anglesey
- Thomas de Penlesden, lieutenant
- John Cam, sheriff of Merioneth
- William de Shaldeford, then lieutenant of the justice
- John de Poleyn, keeper of victuals at Newcastle
- Robert de Notingham (Nottingham)
- William de Kirkeby
- John de Pelhou.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1330 as the petition appears amongst transcripts of petitions copied by Hale from the November 1330 parliament (Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.34b-5a (no.21)).
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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.264-5 (full summary of first petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.34b-5a (no.21) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 21 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210040/
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