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None. King. A pardon is requested for Styvecle for the escape of several clerks who...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/247/12325

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Reference
SC 8/247/12325
Date
[1363]
Description
Petitioners
None.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
A pardon is requested for Styvecle for the escape of several clerks who were prisoners at Cambridge Castle.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Cambridgeshire
Ely diocese
Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
Nicholas de Styvecle, sheriff of Cambridgeshire.
Note
The petition dates to 1363 as the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed and the pardon date to 6 July 1363 (C 81/396/26019; CPR 1361-4, p.383).
Related material

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was previously enclosed see no.26019 in C 81/396

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1361-1364, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.383 (grant of pardon)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439931/

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