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Hugh Cheyne. Cheyne Hugh King. Cheyne requests that whereas the King has appointed...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13136

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Reference
SC 8/263/13136
Date
[1403]
Description
Petitioners
Hugh Cheyne.
Name(s)
Cheyne, Hugh
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Cheyne requests that whereas the King has appointed him to keep the castle and town [of Ludlow] for as long as they are in the King's hands, with a fee of 40 marks ... yearly by the hands of the town's bailiffs who are in the keeping of the town and castle of Ludlow, that he be granted the King's letters patent touching the same.
Nature of endorsement
On 6 June in the fourth year [1403] it was agreed that letters patent should be made to Cheyne of the wardship of the castle and town of Ludlow in accordance with the petition.
Places mentioned
Ludlow, [Shropshire].
Note
Dated in the endorsement to 6 June 4 [Henry IV] (1403).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/167/8307

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.446 (translation of petition with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517082/

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