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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Chikewell (Chigwell), merchant. de Chikewell (Chigwell) John King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/203/10145
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This record is about the John de Chikewell (Chigwell), merchant. de Chikewell (Chigwell) John King and council.... dating from [c. 1307] 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 8/203/10145
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Chikewell (Chigwell), merchant.
- Name(s)
- de Chikewell (Chigwell), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- merchant
- Nature of request
- Chikewell requests a remedy as he and his wife and children are impoverished by the detention of a sum of £681 12d. that he paid to a merchant of Gascony for the king by order of Langton in which the king is bound to him from the time that the earl of Lincoln was the lieutenant of Gascony. Chikewell submitted the letters of the earl to the receipt and Langton by his clerk received the sum but detained it from Chikewell and he is unable to have remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that they call before them in the Exchequer both the bishop of Chester, late the treasurer, and Eston, and they should do full justice to Chikewell upon the contents of the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France].
- People mentioned
- Walter de Langton, formerly treasurer and bishop of Chester (bishop of Coventry and Lichfield)
- [Henry de Lacy], earl of Lincoln
- William de Eston, clerk of Walter de Langton.
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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/C9333700/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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