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John de Thorpe. de Thorpe John King. Thorpe requests the King's grace on the £20...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/277/13846

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Reference
SC 8/277/13846
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
John de Thorpe.
Name(s)
de Thorpe, John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Thorpe requests the King's grace on the £20 which he gave him on his journey to Gascony, which the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer have charged the sheriff of Norfolk to levy from the petitioner's lands and chattels.
Nature of endorsement
The King wills that he be quit of this by writ of Chancery.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Norfolk.
Note
Dated to 1305 since it is included with the Parliamentary petitions for this year (Rot. Parl., vol. I, p. 162a).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.61 (no.100) (Latin summary of petition on Parliament Roll)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.162a (no.26) (Latin summary of petition on Parliament Roll)
  • 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), roll 12, appendix, no.101 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517794/

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