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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter from Edward III to his Chancellor, asking him to send...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/52/2594
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter from Edward III to his Chancellor, asking him to send... 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 8/52/2594
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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
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter from Edward III to his Chancellor, asking him to send a writ of the great seal to Geoffrey le Scrop and his companions, justices, to annul the outlawry pronounced on Richard de Holand in Lancashire, for various felonies and trespasses of which he was indicted at the suit of Edward II, while he was on the king's service in Gascony, as he has asked for this outlawry to be annulled on account of his service there.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Lancashire
- Westminster
- People mentioned
- Edward [III], King of England
- Robert [Stratford], Bishop of Chichester and Chancellor of England
- Richard de Holand
- [Edward II], King of England
- [Edmund of Woodstock], Earl of Kent
- Geoffrey Le Scrop (Le Scrope), justice
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated at Westminster, 20 December 11 Edward III (1337). Robert Stratford was Chancellor between 24 March 1337 and 6 July 1338.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The petition to which this transcript was attached is SC 8/52/2593
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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 3982
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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/C9062809/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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