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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Lords from whom Simon de Bereford held his lands. King and council. The lords show...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/587
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This record is about the Lords from whom Simon de Bereford held his lands. King and council. The lords show... dating from [1338] 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 8/12/587
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lords from whom Simon de Bereford held his lands.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The lords show that they brought a petition to the last parliament requesting that they might have the rents and services due to them from those lands, but because the petition was not fully answered the clerks of Chancery did not want to do this. The lords request that the king order that they be served of the rents and services, and that they have a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer making allowance to the keepers of the lands in their accounts for the same rents and services.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is right that they are served of their rents and for this they should sue before the Chancellor.
- People mentioned
- Clerks of Chancery
- Simon de Bereford
- Keepers of the lands of Simon de Bereford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The Hale transcript in Rot. Parl. makes this one of series of petitions in parliament for 11 Edw. III (1338) (Rot. Parl., vol II, p.97).
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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 1096
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.98b (no.4) (full edition of a later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060726/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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