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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Cystrewast. Cystrewast John King and council Cystrewast requests remedy and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/41/2038
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This record is about the John Cystrewast. Cystrewast John King and council Cystrewast requests remedy and... dating from [1330] 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 8/41/2038
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Cystrewast.
- Name(s)
- Cystrewast, John
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Cystrewast requests remedy and that the sheriff of Buckinghamshire or the keepers of the land of Simon de Bereford enquire into the enclosure of an acre and a half of Cystrewast land made by Bereford by force and his lordship within his park of Chenies, which is now in the hand of the king because of the evil committed by Bereford,
- Nature of endorsement
- If the land of which the petition makes mention is in the hand of the king, let certain men be assigned to enquire if the petition is truthful or not, and of other necessary things, and when the petition has been returned into Chancery let justice be done; and if the land is in the hand of others, he should have a writ at the common law.
- Places mentioned
- Iselhampstede (Chenies), Buckinghamshire.
- People mentioned
- Simon de Bereford, late Escheator south of the Trent.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1330 by the heading in Rot. Parl. II, p.31 making this a petition presented at the parliament held at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine, 4 Edward III (after25 November 1330).
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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 1384
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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.37b (no.33) (full edition of a later copy of an original petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 33 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062244/
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