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None. Council. Letters are requested to the sheriffs [listed] to purvey from their...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8092

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SC 8/162/8092
Date
[1356]
Description
Petitioners
None.
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Letters are requested to the sheriffs [listed] to purvey from their bailiwicks the specified numbers of bows and sheaves of arrows [specified] and carry them to the Tower of London and deliver them to Rothwell at Trinity next coming.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Tower of London, [London].
People mentioned
William de Rothewell (Rothwell), clerk of the Wardrobe
Sheriff of Herefordshire
Sheriff of Gloucestershire
Sheriff of Shropshire
Sheriff of Staffordshire
Sheriff of Lincolnshire
Sheriff of Northamptonshire
Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire
Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Sheriff of Worcester
Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire
Sheriff of Kent
Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset
Sheriff of Devon.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. X, 1354-1360, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.244 (order to purvey the bows and sheaves)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293936/

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