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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Blasco Lopez, valet of Aragon. Lopez Blasco King and council. valet Lopez requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/322/E537
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This record is about the Blasco Lopez, valet of Aragon. Lopez Blasco King and council. valet Lopez requests... dating from [1307] 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 8/322/E537
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Blasco Lopez, valet of Aragon.
- Name(s)
- Lopez, Blasco
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- valet
- Nature of request
- Lopez requests payment of money lent to the king for his Gascon War for which he has sealed letters of the earl of Lincoln as he has remained in England since the truce with France to have payment and has sued by petition to every parliament and has been give a date on the dorse of the petitions for him to have payment but has not had it. The treasurer ordered him at Langley to go to the parliament at Carlisle and Sandall would pay him. He has expended nearly two thirds of the value of the money in pursuit of payment.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Aragon, [Spain]
- King's Langley, [Hertfordshire]
- Carlisle, [Cumberland]
- Gascony, [France].
- People mentioned
- Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln
- [Walter Langton], Bishop of Chester [Coventry and Lichfield], Treasurer
- John Sandall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition refers to the petitioner being instructed to go to the parliament at Carlisle to obtain payment so that this parliament must date to the parliament held there in 1307.
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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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- The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), p.281 (English summary 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), 1307, Hilary parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no. 1 (reference to petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529589/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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