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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter of Hereford, Abbot of Vale Royal. Hereford Walter [King]. Abbot of Vale Royal...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E164
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/315/E164
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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
- Walter of Hereford, Abbot of Vale Royal.
- Name(s)
- Hereford, Walter
- Addressees
- [King].
- Occupation
- Abbot of Vale Royal
- Nature of request
- The abbot requests the king's will concerning the demand for account made by the treasurer for the office of escheator of Cheshire which was granted to Brother Robert by the king in the time of Abbot John, the issues being for the king's works at Vale Royal, and also for grievous distraint made by Godele on their church of Kirkham which is against the custom of Cheshire where they reside.
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer.S [Exchequer].
- Places mentioned
- Vale Royal, [Cheshire]
- Kirkham, [Lancashire].
- People mentioned
- Robert, monk of Vale Royal
- John [Champneys], Abbot of Vale Royal
- Walter de Langton, Treasurer
- John de Godele.
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a contemporary and related petition from the same house, see SC 8/316/E208
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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, no.2 (summary of this file)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529216/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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