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Community of Norfolk. King and council. The community requests remedy concerning...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/159

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This record is about the Community of Norfolk. King and council. The community requests remedy concerning... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/4/159
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Norfolk.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community requests remedy concerning the justices, assigned to enquire of trespasses against the peace. They claim that Thomas de Inglethorpe has been involved in attempts to illegally empanel a jury so that the peace cannot be maintained, so they request another justice be assigned in his place.
Nature of endorsement
1) It is agreed that other men be sent into this county so that a stop might be put to this.2) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Norwich, [Norfolk]
North Erpingham, [Norfolk]
South Erpingham, [Norfolk]
Dereham, [Norfolk]
Elmham, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Thomas Bardolf, justice
Thomas de yngglesthorp (Inglethorpe), justice
Henry de Colby, clerk and squire of Thomas de Inglethorpe
John de Colby, father of Henry de Colby.
Note
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.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6202
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.460 (appointment of the justices as conservators of the peace)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.379a (no.72) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060279/

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