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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of the clergy. King and council. The commons of the clergy state that various...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/977
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This record is about the Commons of the clergy. King and council. The commons of the clergy state that various... dating from [c. 1383-c. 1385] 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 8/20/977
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1383-c. 1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the clergy.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commons of the clergy state that various abbots and priors, cathedral churches, and other people of Holy Church have various rents in the cities and boroughs of England, and these cities and boroughs have franchises, so that every issue from a free tenement in the city or borough will be tried by the citizens or burgesses, so that, by agreement between them, inquests held there are decided in favour of denizens, and do not do justice to outsiders. They request that those outsiders who have been deforced of their rents might have recovery by a writ of scire facias against their deforcers, or against the tenants charged with the land, and that if the matter is tried by inquest, that this might be held half by denizens and half by outsiders.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III, pp. 175b-176a assigns this petition to 7 Richard II (22 June 1383- 21 June 1384), but a note on the guard of this petition says '? 1385'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.45 of PRO 31/7/109
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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 2062
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.176a, no. 5 (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061132/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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