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Not specified Chancellor. Petition requesting two commissions:1) To Thomas Harpecote...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/298/14856

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This record is about the Not specified Chancellor. Petition requesting two commissions:1) To Thomas Harpecote... dating from [1375] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/298/14856
Date
[1375]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified
Addressees
Chancellor.
Nature of request
Petition requesting two commissions:1) To Thomas Harpecote to take on sufficient workmen for the works on the manors and parks of Worldham and Wheatley, and all the manors, lodges and enclosure of parks in the New Forest, and also to arrange for suitable transportation for the said works.2) To Adam de Hertyngdon, clerk, to take on sufficient workmen for these works and to pay them such wages as have previously been paid to others of their condition, by view of the comptroller, John Rouceby, clerk.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Worldham, [Hampshire]
Wheatley, [Hampshire]
New Forest, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
Thomas Harpecote
Adam de Hertyngdon, clerk
John Rouceby, clerk.
Note
CPR 1374-7 pp.96-97 is dated 10 May 1375, and is clearly in response to this petition.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/298/14860

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 III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), pp.96-97 (appointment of Thomas Harpecote and Adam de Hertyngdon to do these things)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518059/

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