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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Hugh de Sprotton, constable of the king's son, the Earl of Chester's castle of Rhuddlan....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/318/E345
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This record is about the Hugh de Sprotton, constable of the king's son, the Earl of Chester's castle of Rhuddlan.... dating from [1318-1319] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/318/E345
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318-1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hugh de Sprotton, constable of the king's son, the Earl of Chester's castle of Rhuddlan.
- Name(s)
- de Sprotton, Hugh
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- constable of the king's son, the Earl of Chester's castle of Rhuddlan
- Nature of request
- Sprotton requests that the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be commanded to pay him for the wages and costs of maintaining the troops at Rhuddlan Castle during the time that Llwyd was imprisoned there, and that he can be served of this. He petitioned for payment and the king accepted this and an inquisition was held into the matter by the justice of Chester which has been returned.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Rhuddlan, [Flintshire, Wales]
- Wales.
- People mentioned
- [Edward of Windsor], Earl of Chester
- Griffith (Gruffydd) de Thoyt (Llwyd)
- John de Sapi, justice of Chester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1318-1319 because this petition appears to be part of an original file of that date (see the dating of SC 8/318/E340).
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.512-13 (calendar of petition)
- Sir Gruffydd Llywyd, J.G. Edwards, (English Historical Review, XXX, pp. 589-, 1915), p.600 (editions of other petitions concerning Gruffydd Llwyd)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529397/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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