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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Melton, archbishop of York. de Melton William King and council. archbishop...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8555
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/172/8555
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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
- William de Melton, archbishop of York.
- Name(s)
- de Melton, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- archbishop of York
- Nature of request
- The archbishop requests remedy as he has been greatly troubled and put to great expense by the conspiracy of Haltebe and Love whereby they have had him indicted in Suffolk of being an adherent of the earl of Kent in the deliverance of Edward II and he has been arraigned before the council.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ of conspiracy in Chancery according to the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Ipswich, [Suffolk]
- Suffolk.
- People mentioned
- John de Haltebe of Ipswich
- Martin Love
- [Edmund of Woodstock], earl of Kent.
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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 at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine (November 1330) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.31b (no.4)).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition complaining of the activities of Haltebe see SC 8/50/2485
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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.4) (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.4 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294420/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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