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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Commons of parliament. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1158
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This record is about the People of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Commons of parliament. The... dating from 1421 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 8/24/1158
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1421
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners complain that a great number of scholars and clerks of the University of Oxford have disseised people of their lands and tenements in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and threatened others, have hunted without permission in warrens, parks and forests in these counties, and have forcibly released clerks convicted of felony from the keeping of their ordinaries. They ask the commons to ask the king, with the assent of the lords, to grant that Justices of Assizes, Justices of Gaol Delivery, and Justices of the Peace in these counties should have power to enquire into this by inquest of 12 men, and proceed against them by capias and exigent to outlawry, if they do not appear; and if they appear and traverse the inquest, and are found guilty, that they should pay a fine of £100 to the king, or be imprisoned for three years if they cannot; and if the prison wardens free them, or release them on mainprise, they should pay 100 marks. And writs should be sent to the Chancellor of Oxford University to banish any such clerks outlawed or convicted, on pain of a fine of 100 marks. And they ask that this might be enacted as a statute.
- Nature of endorsement
- Be it remembered that this petition and its response are enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster on 2 May in the ninth year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Scholars and clerks of the University of Oxford
- Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- As it says on the dorse, this petition was presented to the parliament held at Westminster on 2 May, 9 Henry V (1421).
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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 6342
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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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- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.154, no.119 (calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.131a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with response: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061326/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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