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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Edmund Hardel Hardel Edmund King and council Hardel requests that the mayor and sheriffs...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2497
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/50/2497
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Edmund Hardel
- Name(s)
- Hardel, Edmund
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Hardel requests that the mayor and sheriffs of London be ordered by writ to proceed to judgement in the plea against the Swaulands for 2 messuages with appurtenances in London, and that they do justice to the parties as they find notwithstanding an order made before these hours so that Hardel is not disinherited. The pleas had been suspended because a writ was sent to the mayor and sheriffs that the land was in the king's hand for the debt and accounts that he owed, and in response to a requests by the petitioner the king ordered the mayor and sheriffs to proceed to judgement, as long as they did not proceed to judgement without consulting the king. The mayor and sheriffs have proceeded to judgement.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by writ to the mayor and sheriffs of London that if the process before them between the parties be as the petition suggests then they are to proceed to judgement, rendering the plea according to the law and custom of the city notwithstanding any order made before this time.
- Places mentioned
- Loundres (London)
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Swauland (Swanland)
- Elizabeth (de Swauland), wife of Thomas de Swauland
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard c. 1340 on the basis of the floruit of Thomas de Swanland.
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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 4148
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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/C9062711/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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