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Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick Thomas King....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1055
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/22/1055
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1394]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
- Name(s)
- de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick requests that the inquisition in a case following from a writ of de homine replegiando sued by David Tregoys, his villein, addressed to the sheriff of Cornwall, might be held before the justices of the King's Bench, as prescribed by a statute of Edward I, and that no nisi prius be granted, as he has previously been greatly troubled in this case by having to journey to Cornwall.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king, having consideration to all the matter included in this petition, because of this, and because of other reasonable causes shown and declared in this parliament, with the advice and assent of all the prelates and temporal lords in this parliament, has ordained and granted that the inquisition mentioned in this petition is to be held before the justices of his Bench, where the plea is pending, and not elsewhere, and that no writ of nisi prius is to be granted while the plea is pending, so that the plea is examined and terminated in the Bench, notwithstanding any statute or ordinance which might grant a nisi prius.
- Places mentioned
- Derby, [Derbyshire]
- Critton (Crediton), [Devon]
- Cornwall
- Saltash, [Cornwall].
- People mentioned
- David Tregoys, villein of the petitioner
- Walter Clopton, Justice
- John [Tregoys], son of David Tregoys
- John Hulle, Justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1392-6 p.199, which is explicitly said to be the result of this petition, is dated at Westminster, 23 February 1394. The petition must have been presented in the parliament of January 1394.A note, probably in a later hand, at the foot of the dorse says 'XVII R II'.
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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 979
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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 Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.199 (order to Walter de Clopton and his colleagues to hold the inquisition before the king and not to allow a nisi prius)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.326a-b (no.8) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061219/
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