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Roger de Gaya, clerk. de Gaya Roger King. clerk Roger de Gaya states that he has...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/235/11702
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/235/11702
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger de Gaya, clerk.
- Name(s)
- de Gaya, Roger
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- Roger de Gaya states that he has served the King and his father for thirty years, but is now without an office, as the King has given his offices to others; and that he has also been captured in the Gascon war. The Bishop of Norwich, the Earl of Richmond and Guy Ferre, who had been sent to Gascony, in consideration of his estate, his reputation, his losses and his age, gave him the office of scribe of Florencia and Montreal under the King should be pleased to provide for him elsewhere. He asks the King to confirm their letters granting this to him, for term of his life.
- Nature of endorsement
- A confirmation is to be given as requested, in all points.William de Cases has master Roger's letters.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Florencia (Fleurance), [Gascony, France]
- Montreal, [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- [Edward I], King of England
- John [Salmon], Bishop of Norwich
- John de Brittania (Bretagne, Brittany), Earl of Richmond
- Guy Ferre, knight
- William de Cases.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The requested grant was made, explicitly in response to this petition, on 27 May 1316. John Salmon was Bishop of Norwich between 1299 and 1325, and Guy Ferre was Seneschal of Gascony between October 1300 and February 1301, and between August 1308 and September 1309.
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no.1619 (requested grant)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335261/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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