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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Community of Sussex. King and council 1) The community requests that they can have...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/158
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This record is about the Community of Sussex. King and council 1) The community requests that they can have... 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 8/4/158
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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
- Community of Sussex.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- 1) The community requests that they can have the county court held in one place.2) They further request that they might have a gaol in the county in the same place as the court.3) Further they complain that felons and outlaws enter the franchise of the ports, and are received and maintained there to the damage of the county because those of the ports beat and wound foreigners covering themselves by the franchise to the detriment of the law.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On the face].1) The sheriff is ordered, following the purport of the petition, that he enquire in which place the county court would best be held, and writs thence delivered all the time that it is in the town of the king. And he is to inform the king in his Chancery, and thence it is ordered that the county court should be held there.2) The king is still not advised of this.3) If men knowingly receive any outlaws within the franchise, there is to be a writ of Chancery that they be taken. Of trespasses and assaults made on foreigners, they are to the common law.[On the dorse].Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Sussex.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later petition by same petitioners on the same matters, see SC 8/4/157
For a related petition, see SC 8/259/12913
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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 7423
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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.379a-b (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060278/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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