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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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Hugh le Despenser, son of Hugh le Despenser. Despenser Hugh King and council Despenser...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2091
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This record is about the Hugh le Despenser, son of Hugh le Despenser. Despenser Hugh King and council Despenser... dating from [1332] 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 8/42/2091
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hugh le Despenser, son of Hugh le Despenser.
- Name(s)
- Despenser, Hugh
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Despenser requests that it be ordered that he be delivered from gaol and that right be done to him since the king has granted him a pardon of forfeiture of life and limb and suit of his peace for his offences in holding Caerphilly castle, but he has been held in prison ever since.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) It seems to the council that if he be detained in prison for no other cause, that he ought to be delivered according to the purport of his charter if it pleases the king.
- Places mentioned
- Caerphilly, [Glamorgan, Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition seems to date to 1332 when an exemplification of Despenser's release was recorded on the patent roll (CPR 1330-4, p.246).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a copy of the letters of pardon formerly appended to this petition see SC 8/42/2092
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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 2562
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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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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.59 (full summary of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.246 (exemplification of a memorandum on the parliament roll for the release from prison of the petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062297/
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