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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of the realm. Commons of parliament. The petitioners complain about the abbot...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1095
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This record is about the Commons of the realm. Commons of parliament. The petitioners complain about the abbot... dating from [? 1402] 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 8/22/1095
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1402]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the realm.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners complain about the abbot of Lesnes, and other abbots and priors in England, who have sold and granted annuities, pensions and corrodies to various people, and have then purchased protections from the king, preventing those who have been sold these annuities, pensions and corrodies from having process or execution at common law in their actions concerning them. They ask the commons to ask the king and lords to ordain that all such protections be revoked, and not granted in future, or to ordain that abbots and priors should be obliged in future to answer to plaintiffs in such cases according to the law and custom of the realm, notwithstanding such protections.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Chancery.[On dorse] This petition is to be sent to Chancery, and the Chancellor is to do justice to the parties on the matter contained in it.
- Places mentioned
- Lesnes, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Lesnes.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Apparently datable with reference to CPR 1401-5 p.38.
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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 5052
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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, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.38 (commission associated with subject of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.520a (no.21) (full edition of original petition, or of later copy)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061261/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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