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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Schyrawill. de Schyrawill John King and council. John de Schyrawill complains...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/388
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This record is about the John de Schyrawill. de Schyrawill John King and council. John de Schyrawill complains... dating from [1324-1325] 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 8/8/388
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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 de Schyrawill.
- Name(s)
- de Schyrawill, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- John de Schyrawill complains that, although by the law of the land, no-one convicted of a false oath is to serve on a jury or in any royal office, except by his special command, one John de Freston, who was convicted of this in an assize at Bury St Edmunds between the town and the abbot, has been in the office of coroner in Suffolk for six years. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to sue in Chancery, and there he is to have what justice etc.
- Places mentioned
- Seint Emoun (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- John de Freston
- Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
- Townspeople of Bury St Edmunds.
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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 7177
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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), p.428a, no.43 (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. 43 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060512/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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