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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Paynel, late chamberlain of Chester. Paynel John King and council. chamberlain...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8459
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This record is about the John Paynel, late chamberlain of Chester. Paynel John King and council. chamberlain... dating from [1330] 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 8/170/8459
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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
- John Paynel, late chamberlain of Chester.
- Name(s)
- Paynel, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- chamberlain of Chester
- Nature of request
- Paynel requests that part of his arrears from the time that he was chamberlain of Chester be released as they have been for previous chamberlains having regard for their small fee, and that he has incurred great costs in his office and in levying the debts due to the king, and has rendered his account at his own cost.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be sent into the Exchequer, and there let them hear the reasons and let justice be done.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Chester, [Cheshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1330 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to the parliament held in November 4 Edw. III (1330) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.31b (no.3)).
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.31b (no.3) (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. 3 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294308/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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