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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty of the vill of Latchford in the parish of Haseley. King and council. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/622
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This record is about the Commonalty of the vill of Latchford in the parish of Haseley. King and council. The... dating from [1348] 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 8/13/622
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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
- Commonalty of the vill of Latchford in the parish of Haseley.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty show that Fynel established a perpetual chantry at Latchford to be served by a monk of the abbey of Thame for the souls of the earl and Hugh Despenser for which lands were annexed to the abbey. The current abbot has ruined the chapel and stolen the charters and no man can go to law against him as he is a judge there. The commonalty request remedy as all the country knows that the chantry ought to have been made.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should sue at the common law, and before the bishop likewise if they wish.
- Places mentioned
- Latchford, [Oxfordshire]
- Haselee (Great Haseley), [Oxfordshire]
- Thame, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Henry Fynel, parson of Haseley
- Abbot of Thame
- Earl of Cornwall
- Hugh Despenser.
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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. 42.
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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 4815
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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.184a (no.39) (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. 42 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060761/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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