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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Mounteny. Mounteny John King and council. Mounteny requests remedy because Geoffrey...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/613
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/13/613
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Mounteny.
- Name(s)
- Mounteny, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mounteny requests remedy because Geoffrey Morel and others came to his house in Essex and broke and entered it to murder him and they took his goods, beat his servants, burnt his crops and took his cart full with wheat and two horses and still detain them, and they threaten him so that he dare not approach his house for fear of death.
- Nature of endorsement
- He may sue a writ of trespass and also a writ of menace if he wishes.
- Places mentioned
- Essex.
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey Morel
- John Olive, John Boxer
- Roger Karle
- John Gale.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 28 (summary of petition).
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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 5852
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.181b (no.24) (full edition of a later copy of 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 28 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060752/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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