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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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Walter de Weston, king's clerk. de Weston Walter King and council. king's clerk Walter...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/284/14187
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This record is about the Walter de Weston, king's clerk. de Weston Walter King and council. king's clerk Walter... dating from [? c. 1327-? c. 1340] 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 8/284/14187
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1327-? c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Weston, king's clerk.
- Name(s)
- de Weston, Walter
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- king's clerk
- Nature of request
- Walter de Weston states that the king has granted him the office of scrivener in his court of Gascony, to hold at pleasure, and that, whereas when the duchy belonged to the king in its entirety and was at peace, the office with the keeping of the seal and the emolument pertaining to it belonged entirely to the clerk, recently the seneschals have taken the seal and half the emolument, whereas he still has to pay all the costs and all the clerks necessary for the office, so that he cannot maintain himself. He requests this office, with the keeping of the seal and the emolument, for term of life, to hold in person or through some other suitable person.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king is to be advised about the request, and is further to command his pleasure.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Duchy [of Aquitaine, France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From the hand and language, this petition would seem to date from after the war of St Sardos, and probably from the early part of the reign of Edward III. A Walter of Weston was Constable of Bordeaux in 1347-1348.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682298/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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