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Richard de Merwell. de Merwell Richard King and council. Merwell was granted the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E163

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SC 8/315/E163
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Merwell.
Name(s)
de Merwell, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Merwell was granted the tronage of Kingston rendering £6 per annum which is too high as he can only take a farthing per sack, so that he requests that he can take 1d. from a sack.1)
Nature of endorsement
He should hold it in the form in which it was granted to him, and if not he should render it up and will be granted to others.2) Coram thesauriato.
Places mentioned
Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
Note
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.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529215/

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