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Ralph de Benton. de Benton Ralph King and council. Benton requests a writ of Chancery...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8536
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/171/8536
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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
- Ralph de Benton.
- Name(s)
- de Benton, Ralph
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Benton requests a writ of Chancery to the treasurer or his lieutenant, and to the chamberlains of the Exchequer that they receive a tally that he had from them for £40, and make assignment for it in another place or paying the money from the treasury as reason demands as the sum is in demand in the Exchequer and he had been assigned by the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to take the sum from the sheriff of Westmorland from the remainder of his account by writ of the Exchequer and the tally to purvey victuals for the use of the king, but the sheriff had already given the £40 to Clifford by order of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by writ of Chancery to the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer that they receive the tally from the petitioner, and pay to the petitioner from the treasury £40 in compensation for the £40 for which he is charged by the Exchequer and has not received just as appears by the tally.
- Places mentioned
- Westmorland.
- People mentioned
- Nicholas de Grendon (Grandon), late sheriff of Westmorland
- Robert de Clifford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1327 as an entry in the close rolls is clearly a response to the petition and orders payment or assignment for the petitioner (CCR 1327-30, pp.14-5).
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.14-5 (order in accordance with the response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294401/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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