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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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People who have been sheriffs and those that still are of the county of Devon. King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/174
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This record is about the People who have been sheriffs and those that still are of the county of Devon. King... 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 8/4/174
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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
- People who have been sheriffs and those that still are of the county of Devon.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- They request remedy concerning the levying of debts within the county. The great lords have most of the hundreds of the county, and their bailiffs collect the debts. They appoint insufficient bailiffs who have no lands or tenements in the bailiwick and the sheriff accounts for these sums but the bailiffs do not account to him, so that he is burdened with the debts with no means of remedy which is to the damage of the king and the impoverishment of the sheriff and of the people of the county.
- Nature of endorsement
- It should be written to the lords that they should appoint adequate bailiffs under them, and for whom they will wish to respond for.
- Places mentioned
- Devon.
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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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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 2520
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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.381b (no.94) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060294/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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