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Guillaume de Sowe (Soe). de Sowe (Soe) Guillaume King. Sowe requests that it be commanded...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/317/E255

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This record is about the Guillaume de Sowe (Soe). de Sowe (Soe) Guillaume King. Sowe requests that it be commanded... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/317/E255
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Guillaume de Sowe (Soe).
Name(s)
de Sowe (Soe), Guillaume
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Sowe requests that it be commanded that he be paid his wages for residing in the king's service in such manner that he is able to return to the king's honour to his country.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
[Gascony, France].
Note
The petition is dated to 1305 as this and other petitions has been ascribed to the Lent parliament of 1305 by Maitland (Memoranda de Parliamento, p.321, and no.7, p.324).
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/141/7025

For letters patent concerning the petitioner, see SC 8/281/14010

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), No.7, p.324 (full edition of petition)
  • 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), 1305, Lent parliament, appendix, Gascon petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded (note relating to this petition and referencing Memoranda de Parliamento)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529307/

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