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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William le Rous, late clerk of William de Wymondham. Rous William King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E144
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/314/E144
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William le Rous, late clerk of William de Wymondham.
- Name(s)
- Rous, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- Rous requests that he can make the suit for the king against the debtors of Wymondham, the king paying his expenses, so that the king is able to be served of the arrears owed by Wymondham. He requests also that those sums challenged by Wymondham in his lifetime on his account be allowed if they are reasonable.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to go to the Exchequer and the treasurer and barons are to do what ought to be done.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Canterbury, [Kent]
- Devon.
- People mentioned
- William de Wymundham (Wymondham), late keeper of the exchanges of London and Canterbury, and of the king's mines in Devonshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
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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)
- 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, nos.2-3 (summary of this file) & roll 25, appendix, no.35 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529196/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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