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Clement de la Forde, bailiff of the High Peak. Forde Clement King. High Peak, [Derbyshire]...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/233/11627
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This record is about the Clement de la Forde, bailiff of the High Peak. Forde Clement King. High Peak, [Derbyshire]... dating from [1308] 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 8/233/11627
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1308]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Clement de la Forde, bailiff of the High Peak.
- Name(s)
- Forde, Clement
- Addressees
- King.
- Places mentioned
- High Peak, [Derbyshire]
- Devon.
- Nature of request
- Forde requests allowance in the debt that he owes for his farm as the late king commanded him to send miners to Devon by which the mine workings in the High Peak are ruined, and he had been granted the thirteenth load from the mine pertaining to his farm of the Peak and has not been able to levy it.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
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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 II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), pp.27, 74 (order to the petitioner to send minors to Devon, and reference to petitioner being late bailiff of the High Peak)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335186/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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