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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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The abbot and convent of Aberconway (Conway) King The abbot and convent of Aberconway...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1464
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This record is about the The abbot and convent of Aberconway (Conway) King The abbot and convent of Aberconway... dating from [c. 1320] 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 8/30/1464
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- The abbot and convent of Aberconway (Conway)
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The abbot and convent of Aberconway complain that although by a charter of Edward I they should be quit of all amercements, the sheriffs of Caernarfonshire and Anglesey, and their sub-bailiffs often amerce them and harass them; they request a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.Because this is not a thing known to the auditors of petitions, that a person should be quit of his own amercements, therefore before the king.He is to show the charter in Chancery, and justice is to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Conway, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
- Caernarfonshire, Wales
- Anglesey, Wales
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is dated to? 1307 by Petitions Relating to Wales, p.40, but a note on the guard dates it to? c. 1320 on the basis of the name of the clerk - 'H[er]l[aston]' written at the foot of the dorse. William de Herlaston or Harlaston was a Chancery clerk whose name often appears at the foot of petitions in the latter part of Edward II's reign.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Another petition from the same abbey is SC 8/186/9298
A petition probably once attached to this is SC 8/156/7756
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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 49
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.40 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061657/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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