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People of Kent. King. The people of Kent submit a petition which they delivered to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1017
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This record is about the People of Kent. King. The people of Kent submit a petition which they delivered to... dating from [1386] 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 8/21/1017
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1386]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Kent.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The people of Kent submit a petition which they delivered to the parliament held at Westminster in the fiftieth year of Edward III's reign, stating that although many of them hold nothing of Dover castle, and it has no jurisdiction over them, they are constrained to answer before the ministers of the castle in pleas of debt, trespass, contracts, and all other personal pleas which belong to the king's court, and those of the other lordships of franchises, by means of which they are being ruined by the catchpoles and other ministers of the castle, and requesting that these new customs be revoked, and the castle keep to its former liberty. This petition was endorsed in these terms: 'The ministers are not to have jurisdiction outside the fee of the honour of Dover castle, nor are they to make process by capias outside the franchises of the Cinque Ports'. They request that the king endorse the petition in the same manner, so it might be published, affirmed and observed, and so that those who feel themselves harmed in this way might be aided by this statute, as law and reason demand.
- Nature of endorsement
- This bill is to be sent to Chancery, and there, when the justices, the king's serjeants, and any others who are to be called have been called, justice is to be done on this, on the advice of the great council.
- Places mentioned
- Dover, [Kent]
- Cinque Ports.
- People mentioned
- Edward III, King of England.
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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 4653
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.225 (grant that all pleas of trespass and all actions real and personal in the king's court may be determined before the constable of Dover castle or his deputy, in aid of its ruinous condition; these letters patent were later cancelled, because they issued out of Chancery irregularly.)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.256a-b (no. 17) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061177/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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