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Thomas Doily. Doily Thomas Council of the prince. [The petition is badly damaged...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/333/E1032

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Reference
SC 8/333/E1032
Date
[1375-1376]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Doily.
Name(s)
Doily, Thomas
Addressees
Council of the prince.
Nature of request
[The petition is badly damaged on its right-hand side and the sense is not entirely clear].Doily requests letters for the manors of Watlington and Whitchurch [...] and that the provost of Princes Risbourough be commanded to pay him [...]. He has served the prince in the office of [...] of Gaddesden and Princes Risborough for a year or more [...] and requests that regard is had for his regularly attending at the halmote at Berkhamsted, and the great costs and troubles [...].
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Gatesden (Gaddesden), [Hertfordshire]
Princes Risborough, [Buckinghamshire]
Berkhamsted, [Hertfordshire]
Watlington, [Oxfordshire]
Whitchurch, [Buckinghamshire].
People mentioned
[Edward of Woodstock], Prince [of Wales].
Note
The petition is dated to 1375-1376 as it comes from an original file of petitions addressed to the Black Prince and or his council dating to those years.
Related material

For a petition referring to Doily, see SC 8/333/E1061

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/333/E1057

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/333/E1002

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683155/

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