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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Ellen de Caumpedene (Campden). de Caumpedene (Campden) Ellen King and council. Caumpedene...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1876
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This record is about the Ellen de Caumpedene (Campden). de Caumpedene (Campden) Ellen King and council. Caumpedene... dating from [c. 1287] 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 8/38/1876
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1287]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ellen de Caumpedene (Campden).
- Name(s)
- de Caumpedene (Campden), Ellen
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Caumpedene states that she was taken by Worstead's order, and Olney's procurement and taken to the prison of the abbot at Westminster and wrongly imprisoned her. Fearing that she would complain they imprisoned her in worse conditions, and when she was released she had no redress. She requests remedy for the trespass.
- Nature of endorsement
- Concerning the bailiffs of magnates the king is to provide.She should have a writ of imprisonment.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Middlesex.
- People mentioned
- Philip de Worthstede (Worstead), then bailiff of Abbot Walter of Westminster
- John [de Worthstede (Worstead)], brother of Philip de Worthstede, then sub-bailiff of Abbot Walter of Westminster
- John de Oleneye (Olney)
- John de Corsham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition makes reference to Caumpedene being imprisoned on the Thursday before the feast of the Annunciation in the 15th year of the reign [of Edward I] (1287), and it seems unlikely that she would have waited for too long to complain of her wrongful imprisonment.
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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 1393
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062079/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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