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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University. King and council of parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1053
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This record is about the Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University. King and council of parliament.... dating from [? 1394] 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)
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SC 8/22/1053
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Date (When the record was created)
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[? 1394]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University.
- Addressees
- King and council of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University state that they fear that disputes and controversy could arise from the general nature of the wording of their charter, which grants the Chancellor cognisance of all personal pleas and contracts made within the university or its suburbs, or where a master, scholar, scholar's servant, or common minister of the university is one of the parties, except cases of death or mayhem (mort et maiheym). They request that it be declared in the present parliament that the university's stationers and bookbinders, and others, might be considered to be scholars' servants - as they are in the charter of the Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Stationers of Cambridge University
- Bookbinders of Cambridge University
- Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Dated on the guard to '? 1394', with reference to SC 8/104/5174, and assigned by Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.325b-326a (no. 6) to 17 Richard II (22 June 1393 - 21 June 1394).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/104/5174
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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)
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Parliamentary Petition 1904
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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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))
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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), pp.325b-326a (no.6) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061216/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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