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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Oliver. Oliver Robert King and council. Oliver requests allowance of a sum...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/160/7988
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This record is about the Robert Oliver. Oliver Robert King and council. Oliver requests allowance of a sum... dating from [1327] 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 8/160/7988
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Oliver.
- Name(s)
- Oliver, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Oliver requests allowance of a sum he was found to owe in his account at the Exchequer as keeper of wool customs at Newcastle and Hartlepool for the losses from the Scots, for sums owed him by the king by bill, and for a sum paid by him on royal orders which were maliciously disallowed by the bishop, Despenser and Belers who had him imprisoned. He also requests to pay the residue in instalments.
- Nature of endorsement
- The letter and bills are to be seen in Chancery, and the treasurer and barons are to be commanded to receive the account and make allowance in the bills and letters in the debts owed to the king.He should sue to the treasurer concerning instalments.
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Hartlepool, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter, then treasurer
- Hugh le Despenser
- Roger Belers.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1327 as it is clearly after the fall of Despenser and the death of the bishop of Exeter, and Oliver was granted that he could pay the residue of his debts by instalment on 23 November 1327 (CCR 1327-30, p.190).
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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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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.209-10 (no.187) (full edition of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.190 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to allow Oliver to pay the debts by instalment)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210180/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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