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Robert de la Grave, clerk. Grave Robert King. [The petition is badly faded and much...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/343/16159

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This record is about the Robert de la Grave, clerk. Grave Robert King. [The petition is badly faded and much... dating from [c. 1324-c. 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/343/16159
Date
[c. 1324-c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de la Grave, clerk.
Name(s)
Grave, Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[The petition is badly faded and much of the right-hand side of the petition is illegible]. Grave makes a request concerning the office of scrivener of Sad[...] and refers to letters patent under the great seal to the constable of Bordeaux, and [? the office] being taken into the king's hand by Lymburgh.
Nature of endorsement
Because he has been removed by the ordinances made at Amiens, if he is restored it will be by the grace of the king.
Places mentioned
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
Adam de Lymburgh (Limburg), late constable of Bordeaux.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/287/14347

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 30 Oct. 1924).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736640/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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