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? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ, witnessed by the king at Hunnington, to the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/218/10858

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ, witnessed by the king at Hunnington, to the... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/218/10858
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a writ, witnessed by the king at Hunnington, to the treasurer and barons of the Dublin Exchequer, ordering them to commit the office of usher of the Dublin Exchequer, in the king's hands by the death of Walter del Escheker, late usher, to John de Seleby, to hold in the same manner.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Dublin, [Ireland]
Hunnington, [Shropshire].
People mentioned
Walter del Escheker (Exchequer, Scaccario)
John de Seleby (Selby).
Note
The writ bears no dating clause, but is clearly the copy presented with the petition at SC 8/218/10857, datable to the Westminster parliament of 1305.
Related material

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached see SC 8/218/10857

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.70 (brief calendar of writ with references)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.248 (no.433) (full edition of this writ)
  • 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), roll 12, appendix, no.516 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334415/

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