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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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Chancellor, masters and scholars of the university of Oxford [The petition was part...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/133
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This record is about the Chancellor, masters and scholars of the university of Oxford [The petition was part... dating from [1320] 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 8/3/133
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chancellor, masters and scholars of the university of Oxford
- Nature of request
- [The petition was part of a longer list of petitions subsequently cut up].The chancellor requests that officers and juries concerning inquests of felons before justices be from outside the town, and that the towns people as well as the clerks be forbidden from carrying arms, with the chancellor having the right to punish offenders in default of the mayor. The chancellor has ordered that masters and scholars should not carry arms, though they have been badly treated and injured by townspeople who still do, and who are acquitted at inquests by the pledge of their neighbours.
- Nature of endorsement
- The chancellor should have a writ to the mayor that he should inhibit on behalf of the king the carrying of arms by laymen in the town, except ministers of the town.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1320 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.365 for the parliament held on Monday in the octave of St Michael, 14 Edward II.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another item from the same petition, see SC 8/3/132A
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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 6416
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.373b (no.21) (Latin summary of part of a petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060252/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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