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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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Geoffrey de Massingham. de Massingham Geoffrey King and council. Massingham requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2993
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This record is about the Geoffrey de Massingham. de Massingham Geoffrey King and council. Massingham requests... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1327] 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 8/60/2993
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey de Massingham.
- Name(s)
- de Massingham, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Massingham requests that a speedy remedy be ordained for him against the prior. By the command of the prior, Overbeke and others came to his house in Methwold and carried away his goods and chattels, and sent his carts to carry away his hay from Massingham's court in the same vill.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should sue at the common law.
- Places mentioned
- Broomhill, [Norfolk]
- Methwold, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- Ralph, Prior of Broomhill
- William [Overbeke], son of Thomas Overbeke
- Thomas Overbeke
- John de Karletun (Carlton).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated notionally to the first quarter of the fourteenth century on the basis of the hand. A reference on the guard, which suggests that the petition may date from c. 1332, is spurious.
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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 5618
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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/C9063214/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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