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William Scot Scot William Commons in parliament Scot states that Henry and Ellis...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1269
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/26/1269
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1431-1432]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Scot
- Name(s)
- Scot, William
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament
- Nature of request
- Scot states that Henry and Ellis Bradley great malefactors and other unknown malefactors of their affinity have often come at night to Scot's house at Hammerton to kill him, his sons and servants, hiding in unknown place both in Yorkshire and Lancashire so that no sheriff, justice of the peace or other ministers of the king to find and arrest them, so that Scot, his sons and servants are not able to live in the house of go about their business for fear of being killed, and the malefactors still continue their activities. Scot requests that the commons request from the king that he grant a writ of proclamation to the sheriff of York and to the sheriff of Lancashire, to make proclamations at the market of Skipton in Craven, and at the market at Clitheroe respectively that Henry and Ellis appear before the king in his Bench on the same day that the writs are returnable upon a certain penalty to find sufficient surety to keep the peace, and if they do not appear to forfeit the penalty.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king is to be advised.
- Places mentioned
- Slaidburn, Yorkshire
- Bowland, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Ribchester, Lancashire
- Hammerton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Skipton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Craven, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Clitheroe, [Lancashire]
- People mentioned
- Henry Bradley of Slaidburn in Bowland in Yorkshire, yeoman
- Ellis Bradley of Ribchester in Lancashire, yeoman.
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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 7634
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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), p.416a-b (edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061444/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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