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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan de la Chaumbre (Chamber), widow of John de la Chamber. Chaumbre (Chamber) Joan...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/319/E360
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This record is about the Joan de la Chaumbre (Chamber), widow of John de la Chamber. Chaumbre (Chamber) Joan... dating from [c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/319/E360
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan de la Chaumbre (Chamber), widow of John de la Chamber.
- Name(s)
- Chaumbre (Chamber), Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Chaumbre requests grace as the king ordered the bishop of Durham to find suitable sustenance for her in the hospital of Sherburn because her husband was killed in the defence of Berwick castle, but the bishop answered that the hospital was already too burdened. She requests a grant of part of the victuals to be taken at Newcastle whereof she is able to live.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Sherburn, [County Durham]
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- John de la Chaumbre (Chamber), late husband of the petitioner
- Roger de Horsleye (Horsley)
- [Louis Beaumont], Bishop of Durham.
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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 Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.101 (request to the bishop to admit the petitioner to the hospital)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.174-5 (no.129) (full edition or petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529412/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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