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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger de Okeourne, knight. de Okeourne Roger Chancellor. Roger de Okeourne states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/296/14788
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This record is about the Roger de Okeourne, knight. de Okeourne Roger Chancellor. Roger de Okeourne states... dating from [c. 1333] 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 8/296/14788
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger de Okeourne, knight.
- Name(s)
- de Okeourne, Roger
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Roger de Okeourne states that in the time of the late King he was forced to promise 100 marks in Chancery to Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, because he had been with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and that he had purchased a writ founded on the statute made at Westminster to deal with such debts, but that the bishops, earls and barons who, according to the statute, are to be summoned by the justices cannot be made to come. He asks that such a process might be ordained that the statute might take effect.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to sue before the justices where the process is pending.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester
- [Edward II], King of England
- Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1333-7 p.86 is dated 16 February 1333, and p.113 is dated 12 May 1333. Both respites are to be made while proceedings are taking place for annulling this debt, so the petition would seem to date from around this time.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.86 (order to give the petitioner a respite from payment of this sum until midsummer) & p.113 (order to give the petitioner respite until Michaelmas)
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Record URL
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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