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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Chancellor and clerks of the University of Cambridge. King and council The petitioners...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/39/1901
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This record is about the Chancellor and clerks of the University of Cambridge. King and council The petitioners... dating from [1336] 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 8/39/1901
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1336]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chancellor and clerks of the University of Cambridge.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners show that the king's predecessors granted to them that clerks of the university accused of crimes in the university should be taken by the mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge and imprisoned at the order of the chancellor of the university until delivered by him. Now many such malefactors so imprisoned have brought writs of trespass and of oyer and terminer against the chancellor and proctors maliciously entangling them. If they do not have amends the university will be undone. They request remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- 1) Coram rege et magno consilio.2) Let the charters in this petition be declared, and let it be granted to them that the chancellor and scholars should not be impeached by the justices or other ministers of the king or his heirs because of such imprisonments made by them by virtue of their charters.
- Places mentioned
- Cantebrigge (Cambridge), [Cambridgeshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be firmly dated to 1336 by the writ addressed to the mayor and bailiff in accordance with the petition and response (CCR 1333-7, pp.559-60).
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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 1739
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.559-60 (order to the mayor and bailiffs not to release malefactors)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062104/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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