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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Giffard of Cotterstock, clerk. Giffard John King and council. clerk John Giffard...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/385
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/385
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1324-1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Giffard of Cotterstock, clerk.
- Name(s)
- Giffard, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- John Giffard of Cotterstock, clerk, makes 3 complaints:1) He states that although he holds only part of the lands which belonged to John de Houby, formerly sheriff of Northamptonshire, the present sheriff is distraining him for the whole debt which John de Houby owed the king. He requests a remedy.2) He also complains that although his lands and tenements have been assessed at the king's command, and two inquisitions held and returned in the exchequer, the sheriff distrains John beyond the sum of these assessments, so often and so grievously - even extending to the oxen for his plough - that he cannot work his land. Again he requests a remedy.3) He also complains that the sheriff is distraining him for this debt in land and tenements that never belonged to John de Houby, and in the common pastures belonging to these lands. He requests a remedy, as law and reason demands.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have a writ of Chancery to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that, when they have seen and examined the petition, they are to do what is just.
- Places mentioned
- Cotterstock, [Northamptonshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Houby, formerly sheriff of Northamptonshire
- the sheriff of Northamptonshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
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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 3927
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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)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.427b-428a, no.42 (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp. 416-429, no. 42 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060509/
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