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John Forner, clerk. Forner John King. Gascony, [France]. [The petition is badly damaged...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/330/E993

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This record is about the John Forner, clerk. Forner John King. Gascony, [France]. [The petition is badly damaged... dating from [c. 1317-c. 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/330/E993
Date
[c. 1317-c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
John Forner, clerk.
Name(s)
Forner, John
Addressees
King.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France].
Nature of request
[The petition is badly damaged along its right-hand side, and the sense is not completely clear]. Forner shows that the king ordered the seneschal to amortise £10 worth of rent [...] to make a chaplain for his clerk, but only rent of 100s. was given to the clerk [...] and the chapel has not been begun for lack of finance. He requests that the rent of 100s. be amortised [...].
Nature of endorsement
[The response is only just visible under the portion of the guard attached to the petition].Petition of [John Forner clerk of Gascony].
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1317-c. 1330 because the petition appears to be part of a file of Gascon petitions that date to this approximate date (SC 8/330/E979-E994). Few of the petitions have proved easily datable, only SC 8/330/E987 proving of any real use, referring to John de Weston as the former chamberlain of Scotland, and he ceased to hold that office in 1317. Several of the petitions seem to refer to war service, and it is unclear whether these are references to the war in the last years of Edward I or to that of St Sardos, hence the late date of c. 1330.
Related material

For another petition possibly from this same file, see SC 8/346/E1385

The petition belongs to a probable original file consisting of SC 8/330/E979-SC 8/330/E994, see SC 8/330/E979

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no.1585 (order to the seneschal of Gascony and constable of Bordeaux that probably preceded this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682988/

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