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Arnaud de Durefort (Durfort). de Durefort (Durfort) Arnaud King and council. Durefort...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/166/8274
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This record is about the Arnaud de Durefort (Durfort). de Durefort (Durfort) Arnaud King and council. Durefort... dating from [c. 1338] 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 8/166/8274
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Arnaud de Durefort (Durfort).
- Name(s)
- de Durefort (Durfort), Arnaud
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Durefort requests that:1) whereas at the last parliament in the 12th year of the King's reign (1338) the King granted to the petitioner's father and his heirs the land for which the petitioner's father, and after his death the petitioner, did homage, and recently the King has burdened him with disturbances and troubles in the said lands, that the King remove all such disturbances, renew his grant and revoke all other grants or exchanges made to others concerning the said lands, having regard for the fact that he and his father received fealty and homage from the inhabitants of the said lands, their good and loyal service, the great losses and damages which they have suffered and the death of his father in the King's service.2) he receive the £1000 which the King and council granted him to maintain his estate in money of Gascony, and 500 marks which the King owes him for arrears of a toll of St Macaire, and that he be paid here, since it is of no use to him overseas seeing that he is in such state that he cannot live and is on the point of being imprisoned and ruined for debt which he owes for his livelihood, and has left his wife, child and men in the town of Bayonne as hostages until he has paid his debt.3) the King order the treasurer to pay him the £100 assigned to him long ago in part payment of the aforesaid money to pay his debts due in London, for which he left two of his companions as hostages until he has paid the said debts, so that his companions can be freed.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- St Macaire, [France]
- Hertford, [Hertfordshire]
- Gascony, [France]
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Arnaud [de Durefort (Durford)], father of the petitioner
- Constable of Bordeaux.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1338, with reference to Carte, vol. I, p. 90. The petition refers to events of parliament of February 12 Edward III [1338].
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see no.2667 of C 81/162
For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see no.2701 of C 81/163
For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see no.696 of C 81/64
For another petition, possibly from the same petitioner, see SC 8/43/2141
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294119/
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