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People of Cornwall. King and council The petitioners state that the earls and the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1996
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/40/1996
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1317]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Cornwall.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that the earls and the queen had the chattels of felons and fugitives, and wreck of sea, which chattels were taken to burghs and villages by the justices, coroners and other ministers to answer in the eyre of the justices to deliver them to those whose right they were by judgement, and this was the usage to the last eyre. Afterwards Hyde and other sheriffs by lordship and distress of certain boroughs and vills such chattels and wrecks are levied in the county, and now as soon as the chattels are proffered they are levied against law and their usage. The people request they can be at the common law as they anciently were, or that they be quit of the prise which they have paid so that they are not hindered in this before any minister of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the king granted the queen that she should have the chattels of felons, and that she is able by her ministers can place in their seizin immediately just as it made in her charter, and it is agreed by the council of the king that the villages in the county of Cornwall in eyres and elsewhere be exonerated. It is ordered that letters patent of the king be made to the community of the council, that at times when the county comes into the hand of the queen, and those chattels were received, that the communities and each village be exonerated of those chattels in the eyre and elsewhere.
- Places mentioned
- Cornwall.
- People mentioned
- Richard [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
- Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
- [Isabella of France], Queen of England
- Thomas de la Hide (Hyde), Sheriff of Cornwall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1317 as the petition states that the county is in the queen's hand, and Edward II did not grant the county to Queen Isabella until 25 July 1317 (CPR 1317-21, p.5). The petition is also endorsed in Latin, and this would suggest that it is before 1322 when petitions begin to be predominantly endorsed in Anglo-Norman.
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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 1321
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.5 (grant of the county to the queen)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062200/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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