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Geoffrey le Chamur (Caukor), burgess of Conway; Henry le Chamur (Caukor), son of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E171

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Reference
SC 8/315/E171
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Geoffrey le Chamur (Caukor), burgess of Conway; Henry le Chamur (Caukor), son of Geoffrey le Chamur, burgess of Conway.
Name(s)
Chamur (Caukor); Chamur (Caukor), Geoffrey; Henry
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Chamurs request remedy as they took their goods to Beaumaris but they were taken by force by St George who gave them to the workers of Beaumaris, and they have been forced to impoverishment because of a debt that they owed for the goods, they having shown good certification at York of this debt but they are still not paid.1)
Nature of endorsement
Wales.2) Coram thesauriato et baronibus.3) They should come to the Exchequer and there let it be considered how much they ought to be paid, and let it be assigned to be paid from the hand of the escheator beyond the Trent from his Welsh issues, and this is granted by the treasurer in full parliament.
Places mentioned
Conway, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
York.
People mentioned
James of Seint George (St George)
William de Felton, constable of Beaumaris
John de Kyrkeby (Kirkby)
Richard de Haveryng (Havering), escheator north of the Trent.
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.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/312/E35

For another petition on the same matter, see SC 8/131/6507

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/C9529223/

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