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? No Petitioner named Transcript of a writ of Edward II, dated at Guildford on 15...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/337/15903

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Transcript of a writ of Edward II, dated at Guildford on 15... dating from [1310-c. 1321] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/337/15903
Date
[1310-c. 1321]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Transcript of a writ of Edward II, dated at Guildford on 15 September 1308, ordering the Chancellor to appoint Sumery to the first available benefice in his gift, on account of his service to the king and his father.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Guildford, [Surrey].
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
John [Langton], Bishop of Chichester, Chancellor
William de Sumery (Somery), clerk
[Edward I, King of England].
Note
Dated in the dating clause to 15 September in King Edward's second year, and to 1308 by reference to the Bishop of Chichester as Chancellor. However, this is clearly the copy referred to in the petition at SC 8/337/15903, and presumably dates from the same time as that petition, between 1310 and c. 1321. Langton, described there as the former chancellor, left office in July 1310, and Somery appears on the patent roll as a royal clerk and official until around 1321. He was appointed to the benefice of Llan-faes on Anglesey on 18 June 1319, and as warden of St Thomas's Hospital, Marlborough, on 12 March 1321, possibly but not necessarily a direct consequence of this petition. The petition which led to the original writ would seem to be that at SC 8/270/13485.
Related material

For an earlier petition from Sumery on the same matter, see SC 8/270/13485

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached see SC 8/337/15904

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.354 (appointment of Somery to the benefice of Llan-faes in the diocese of Bangor) & p.571 (appointment of Somery as warden of St Thomas's Hospital, Marlborough)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529655/

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