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People of the Channel Islands King The poor people of the Isles state that they have...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/53/2642

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Reference
SC 8/53/2642
Date
[c. 1305-c. 1309]
Description
Petitioners
People of the Channel Islands
Addressees
King
Nature of request
The poor people of the Isles state that they have often been ruined by the enemy in the war, and complain that they are summoned before the Bishop of Coutances's court and harassed there. They request a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Channel Islands
Coutances, [Normandy, France]
People mentioned
The bishop of Coutances
Note
Dated on the guard to '? c. 1305-1309' with reference to SC 8/114/5662, CCR 1302-7 p.347 and CCR 1307-13 pp.149 & 153.CCR 1302-7 p.327 (not 347 as it says on the guard) is dated at Westminster, 10 April 1305.CCR 1307-13 p.149 is dated at Langley, 3 April 1309.CCR 1307-13 p.153 is dated at Westminster, 15 May 1309. The petition would seem to date from around this period, but it is so short that further precision is difficult.
Related material

A related petition is SC 8/114/5662

For a related petition from Otto de Grandison is SC 8/49/2439

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3668
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.57 (translation of petition)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.327 (order to the Bishop of Coutances not to summon the inhabitants of the Channel Islands before him outside the islands, or to attempt anything against them to the derogation of the king's dignity or the pope's indulgence granted to them)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), pp.149 (order to the Bishop of Coutances not to summon the inhabitants of the Channel Islands before him on matters of which the cognisance belongs to the king) & p.153 (order to Otto de Grandison, Keeper of the Channel Islands, to issue a proclamation forbidding anyone to cite anyone to appear before the Bishop of Coutances)
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