Catalogue description Petitioners: Roger de Horsley, lately constable of Bamburgh or Berwick castle. ...

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Details of SC 8/201/10039
Reference: SC 8/201/10039
Description:
Petitioners: Roger de Horsley, lately constable of Bamburgh or Berwick castle.
Name(s): de Horsley, Roger
Addressees: [King and] council.
Occupation: constable of Bamburgh or Berwick castle
Nature of request: [This petition is damaged and largely illegible.]Roger de Horsley requests an allowance in his account for his costs and expenses for the repair of a castle of which he was constable [this would seem to be either Bamburgh or Berwick], in the time of the King's father.
Nature of endorsement: . . . when the . . . have been seen . . . the said Roger will wish . . . the said costs and expenses which he has incurred for the aforesaid cause . . . they are to have good and loyal people appointed to inquire into the said portions and what they can find by this inquiry . . ..
People mentioned: Edward [II], King of England.
Note: Dated with reference to the mention of King Edward, the King's father and to CCR 1333-7 p.260, which is dated 26 September 1334. Roger de Horsley was appointed constable of Bamburgh castle in 1314, of Berwick castle in 1317 and of Bamburgh again in 1318. He probably died in 1340 (Northumberland Petitions pp.62-3).
Date: [1327-? c. 1334]
Related material:

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/83/4119

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/53/2602

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/53/2601

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/52/2600
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.260 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to give Roger de Horsley an allowance for the debts he owes the King in the debts the King owes him)

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