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Community of Stafford King and council The community of Stafford state that they...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/45/2244
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This record is about the Community of Stafford King and council The community of Stafford state that they... dating from [1337] 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 8/45/2244
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Community of Stafford
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The community of Stafford state that they hold their town of the king at fee-farm, and have various lands and tenements outside the town, but that they are unable to leave the town to cultivate these lands, or to trade, because of open and malicious threats and menaces from Humphrey de Hastang and others. As a result they are so impoverished that they will have to abandon the town if they have no remedy, and therefore ask for such special remedy to be ordained as will enable them to leave the town in safety, and pay their farm and other aids to the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- It seems to the council that, for the safety of the said town and for the keeping of the peace, a swift remedy ought to be found.It pleases the king that the good people of the town might be taken into his protection and safekeeping, so that they can come and go, and act to their advantage at will; and the king's good and binding letters patent are to be issued on this, through which all people are to be forbidden, on pain of forfeiture, from harming or molesting these people. And on the matter of the same protection, the said Humphrey and all others whom they wish to name are to be sent writs close, instructing them not to harm the said people, contrary to the said protection, on pain of forfeiture. And the justices in the said county and the Sheriff are to be ordered to have this proclaimed, the justices in their session an the Sheriff throughout his bailiwick, that no-one is to harm or do evil to the said people, contrary to the said protection. And if after the said proclamation they find anyone contravening it, they are to have them arrested and held in prison until the king has commanded his will on this.
- Places mentioned
- Stafford, [Staffordshire]
- People mentioned
- Humphrey de Hastang (Hastings)
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1334-8 p.428 is dated at Westminster, 27 March 1337: the parliament at which the petition was presented must have been that of March 1337.
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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 7287
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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 III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.428 (protection and safe-conduct, for four years, to the burgesses and men of Stafford, on a petition to the king and council in parliament)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062454/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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