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William de Sumery (Somery), clerk of Chancery. de Sumery (Somery) William King. clerk...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/270/13485

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This record is about the William de Sumery (Somery), clerk of Chancery. de Sumery (Somery) William King. clerk... dating from [1310-c. 1321] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/270/13485
Date
[1310-c. 1321]
Description
Petitioners
William de Sumery (Somery), clerk of Chancery.
Name(s)
de Sumery (Somery), William
Addressees
King.
Occupation
clerk of Chancery
Nature of request
[The petition is damaged in places].Petition in three parts.1) Sumery requests that the king remember the service he has done to him as prince and king, and to his father, and that he fulfil promises made to him during the king's pilgrimage to Canterbury, which have not been forthcoming.2) Sumery requests that the king will command for his advancement for he has been in the king and his father's service for 23 years in Chancery and the Wardrobe without any advancement, travelling six times to Ireland, four times to Scotland and once to Flanders.3) Sumery requests that he be paid wages and expenses due to him from the time of the king and his father.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege. The king considers the petition just because he has good testimony2) Let it be directed to the Chancellor that he should have [...] before others of the [...].
Places mentioned
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
Scotland
Tower of London, [London]
Canterbury, [Kent]
Sutton at Hone, [Kent]
Dartford, [Kent]
Ireland
Scotland
Flanders.
People mentioned
John Fitz Thomas
Guy Ferre
William de Bliburgh
John de Bensted.
Note
This petition is very similar to that at SC 8/337/15904, both in the terms and the phraseology, although the petitioner here claims to have served the king for 23 years rather than the 21 years noted in the other petition. It therefore seems likely that it dates to slightly after that petition, which can be dated to the period between the end of John Langton's chancellorship in July 1310 and c. 1321. Somery appears on the patent roll as a royal clerk and official between c. 1300 and c. 1321, and was appointed to the benefice of Llan-faes on Anglesey on 18 June 1319, and as warden of St Thomas's Hospital, Marlborough, on 12 March 1321. However, neither can be identified as a direct consequence of either petition.
Related material

For a copy of a writ, formerly attached to that petition, see SC 8/337/15903

For another similar petition from this petitioner see SC 8/337/15904

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 II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.354 (appointment of Somery to the benefice of Llan-faes in the diocese of Bangor) & p.571 (appointment of Somery as warden of St Thomas's Hospital, Marlborough)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517432/

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