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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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Master, brothers, sisters, and poor sick people of the hospital of St Leonard, York....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1188
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This record is about the Master, brothers, sisters, and poor sick people of the hospital of St Leonard, York.... dating from [1423] 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 8/24/1188
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1423]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Master, brothers, sisters, and poor sick people of the hospital of St Leonard, York.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners complain that their right to a thrave of corn from every plough ploughing in the counties of Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, within the province of York, has recently been in great part withheld by various people, and that they have no remedy at common law. They ask the commons to ask the King, the Duke of Gloucester, and the lords, to grant and ordain, by authority of parliament, that they might be able to levy and collect these thraves according to their former custom and usage, and that they might have writs and plaints of debt or detinue against those withholding the thraves, to recover them, with their damages. Provided that the parties with whom they have come to an agreement about this are not to be charged with more than is specified in the agreement.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Everwik (York)
- Yorkshire
- Cumberland
- Westmorland
- Lancashire
- Province of York.
- People mentioned
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester, Protector and Defender 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 8985
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.249b-250a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with response: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061359/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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