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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Laurence de Brok (Brook). de Brok (Brook) Laurence King and council Brok shows that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/195
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This record is about the Laurence de Brok (Brook). de Brok (Brook) Laurence King and council Brok shows that... dating from [c. 1322] 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 8/4/195
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Laurence de Brok (Brook).
- Name(s)
- de Brok (Brook), Laurence
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Brok shows that previously he has sued in parliament for the manors of Finmere and Preston of which he was disseised by Langton and Preston. The king has made an enquiry by an inquest which was returned into Chancery upon which Brok requests that the king view the process and inquests and that law and justice be done to him.
- Nature of endorsement
- The inquisition should be brought before the council and afterwards with the petition it should be [...] before the king.
- Places mentioned
- Finmere, [Oxfordshire]
- Preston Bisset, [Buckinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (Bishop of Chester)
- William Tuchet.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see also SC 8/4/197
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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 1180
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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.389a (no.11) (another petition by the same petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060315/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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