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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
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Ralph, Prior of Lancaster. Ralph King and council. Prior of Lancaster For the maintenance...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2858
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This record is about the Ralph, Prior of Lancaster. Ralph King and council. Prior of Lancaster For the maintenance... dating from [1330] 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 8/58/2858
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ralph, Prior of Lancaster.
- Name(s)
- Ralph
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of Lancaster
- Nature of request
- For the maintenance of the peace the petitioner seeks a writ of oyer and terminer to Travers and Hornby to enquire into certain trespasses as the law demands. He states that Banaster and other wrongdoers captured and imprisoned the petitioner and his men, and beat and wounded others to the great damage and injury of the petitioner and his men.
- Nature of endorsement
- Memorandum to assemble in chancery and make fine to assign wise and loyal men of oyer and terminer.
- Places mentioned
- Lancaster, [Lancashire].
- People mentioned
- Adam Banaster
- John Travers
- John Hornby
- William de Tachaum.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The resulting commission was not enrolled in chancery but was preserved in the cartulary of Lancaster Priory (Chetham Society, new series 31, p. 468), which dates the petition securely to 1330.
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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 5332
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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)
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- Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.756 (discussion of the petition).
- Materials for the History of the Church of Lancaster, vol. II , ed. W. Roper, (Chetham Society, new series XXXI, 1894), p.468 (resulting commission of oyer and terminer)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063078/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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