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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Richard de Aston. de Aston Richard King and council. Aston requests grace and remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/47
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This record is about the Richard de Aston. de Aston Richard King and council. Aston requests grace and remedy... dating from [1307] 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 8/1/47
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard de Aston.
- Name(s)
- de Aston, Richard
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Aston requests grace and remedy for a debt of £142 which is coming due from him in the great roll of the Exchequer, and is due to Adam de Stratton. He had entered into a recognizance with Stratton at the Exchequer, receiving a quittance for some of the sum, and giving his manor of Aston for 4 years for the remainder. Stratton has since raised double the debt from the manor, but does not wish to make any quittance to Aston, or to anyone else as he can prove.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is commanded by a writ of Chancery to the treasurer and barons that they should enquire into this. If they find it to be so by the inquisition, then they are to do justice to Aston.
- Places mentioned
- Aston [unidentified].
- People mentioned
- Adam de Stratton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1307 on the basis of the dating of Rot. Parl., vol I, p.192, the dating of the memoranda roll being for the parliament at Carlisle on Wednesday in the Octave of St Hillary, 35 Edw. I.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 262
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.196a (no.30) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no. 45 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060159/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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