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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Simon de St Litz. de St Litz Simon King and council. The petitioner seeks compensation...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2894
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This record is about the Simon de St Litz. de St Litz Simon King and council. The petitioner seeks compensation... dating from [c. 1320] 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 8/58/2894
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Simon de St Litz.
- Name(s)
- de St Litz, Simon
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks compensation of £1000 and the chastisement of certain wrongdoers. He shows that Aymer de Valence was recently appointed keeper of England (while the king was in France), and Richard Duraunt and Simon son of Jordan le Carpenter came with other unknown wrongdoers and spied upon the petitioner as he came from Westbury and wickedly attacked him in Shalstone the Saturday before St John the Baptist, and they assaulted and wounded him by which he lost his hand.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to approach chancery and seek [redress] under the common law.
- Places mentioned
- Bourton [Buckinghamshire]
- Westbury, [Buckinghamshire]
- Shalstone, [Buckinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke
- Richard Duraunt of Bourton
- Simon [le Carpenter], son of Jordan le Carpenter.
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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 4912
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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/C9063114/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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