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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger de Walkynton (Walkington), clerk of the great custom and of the exchange of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/327/E863
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This record is about the Roger de Walkynton (Walkington), clerk of the great custom and of the exchange of... dating from [c. 1307-1312] 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 8/327/E863
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-1312]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger de Walkynton (Walkington), clerk of the great custom and of the exchange of Berwick.
- Name(s)
- de Walkynton (Walkington), Roger
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- clerk of the great custom and of the exchange of Berwick
- Nature of request
- Walkynton states that he resides at his own cost, and requests that he is able to be paid at London or elsewhere where the king has great customs and exchanges, and that he can be paid from the issues of his offices. He requests that two sufficient burgess of Berwick be ordained to answer for the account to whomever the king assigns. He requests that the coket be delivered, the one foil to be delivered to the customers, and the other to Walkyngton as the clerk there does not know who to pay money except to Lumbard and others [named], as the customers assigned by the chamberlain answer all days that they have nothing. He requests remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should await the coming of the chamberlain of Scotland.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Walter de Gosewyk (Goswick), mayor of Berwick-upon-Tweed
- John de la Muliere
- David de Breghyn
- Edmund de Hastinges (Hastings), keeper of Berwick-upon-Tweed
- John de Weston, chamberlain of Scotland
- Bone le Lumbard (Lombard).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1307-1312 as the petitioner was dead by 1312, and it seems likely that he was appointed to office in the first years of Edward II's reign.
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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/C9682858/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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