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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter to the Chancellor from William de Cleytoun, who states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/296/14771
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to the Chancellor from William de Cleytoun, who states... dating from [1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/296/14771
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to the Chancellor from William de Cleytoun, who states that the King owed his lord, the late Earl of Pembroke, £100 annually as his fee as Keeper of the Forest on this side of the Trent, and that William was made his deputy in this office before the King, and received this fee for his costs and labour. The fee is in arrears, for both the Earl and William, from Easter last to the feast of St John. William requests a writ of liberate to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer to pay the £25 that are in arrears, and that the writ might be given to the bearer of this letter.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- People mentioned
- William de Cleytoun (Clayton)
- Robert de Baudak (Baldock), Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Middlesex
- [Aymer de Valence], Earl of Pembroke.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to 1324 with reference to the recent death of Aymer de Valence (23 June 1324), and to Robert Baldock as Chancellor (August 1323-November 1326).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517972/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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