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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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John of Burton, Abbot of Burton upon Trent. Burton John King and council. Abbot of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/37/1817
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/37/1817
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1307
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John of Burton, Abbot of Burton upon Trent.
- Name(s)
- Burton, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Burton upon Trent
- Nature of request
- The abbot states that he has paid a fine to the king for the vacancy in his house, however the subescheators of the escheators on either side of the Trent have entered the same doing much damage because both claim jurisdiction. The abbot requests that it be ordained which escheator has authority during the next vacancy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by writ to both escheators that they are to be before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer at Westminster one month after Easter, and when the arguments have been heard, further action is to be taken for the profit of the king.
- Places mentioned
- Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
- River Trent.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1307 as the Latin summary of this petition in Rot. Parl. vol. I dates this to the parliament held at Carlisle in January 1307 (p.192).
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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 1292
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.195b (no.27) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.42 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062019/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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