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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
Item
Good people of Devon. King and council The people request that they are able to choose...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2099
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This record is about the Good people of Devon. King and council The people request that they are able to choose... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1350] 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 8/42/2099
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Good people of Devon.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The people request that they are able to choose a clerk of the county to enrol all the receipts of the sheriff and charge them on his account, and to take for his service one halfpenny of the money, and the receiver the other halfpenny so that the king is able to be served of his debt, and people be acquitted. Many sheriffs by their receivers have levied the debt of the king by summons of the Exchequer for each person the receiver takes a penny for each tally often by deceit that the debt to the king contained in the tally is not acquitted to the damage of the king and the impoverishment of the people because the sheriff comes afterwards and has the same debt levied again.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wishes to consider this with his council.2) Coram rege pro comodo.
- Places mentioned
- Deveneshire (Devon).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No certain context has been established, and the petition is here dated notionally to the first half of the fourteenth century.
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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 2522
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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/C9062305/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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