Roger de Sheffeld (Sheffield), clerk. de Sheffeld (Sheffield) Roger King and council....

Petitioners

Roger de Sheffeld (Sheffield), clerk.

Name(s)

de Sheffeld (Sheffield), Roger

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Sheffeld requests a writ of the great or privy seal to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer discharging him of the sum of 40 marks which the Exchequer is demanding from him for the farm of the church of Kirkby Fleetham, of which he was lately keeper, to his great damage. By order of Edward II he was to pay the farm to Wingfield, receiver of the profits from the lands of the templars, and had done so. The king's order was lost amongst the king's remembrances abandoned at the battle of Stirling [Bannockburn], but it can be witnessed by many good men of England.

Nature of endorsement

Because it is sufficiently attested before the council that the deed that Sheffeld has as evidence of payment is Wingfield's, it is ordered by writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that they receive the deed and discharge Sheffeld, and they should charge the heirs, the tenants of the land and the executors of Wingfield as reason demands.

Places mentioned

Kirkby Fleetham, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

Stirling, [Stirlingshire, Scotland].

People mentioned

Roger de Wyngefeld (Wingfield), late receiver of the Chamber.

For a fragmentary duplicate of this petition see SC 8/11/544

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.265 (order to discharge petitioner of 40 marks farm for Kirkby Fleetham)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.79b (no.27) (edition of petition)
• 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp.73-89, no.27 (summary of references)