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People of Maugersbury. King and council The people request remedy as Bedford and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/63/3128
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This record is about the People of Maugersbury. King and council The people request remedy as Bedford and... dating from [1348] 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 8/63/3128
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Maugersbury.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The people request remedy as Bedford and the others are seised in fee of the great part of the lands and tenements in the vill and grow corn and pasture their animals on the land. However they live in Stowe, and take their corn from the vill and do not wish to contribute to the wool tax and fifteenth to the people's great damage.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should have a writ to the collectors of wools and fifteenths that the corn growing in the vill of Maugersbury and of the beasts fed there be chargeable with those of the same vill notwithstanding that the corn and beasts are removed from the vill as reason demands.
- Places mentioned
- Maugersbury, [Gloucestershire]
- Stowe St Edward (Stow on the Wold), [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- Walter de Bedoforde (Bedford)
- William Rolf
- William Hugwes (Hughes)
- John Cledon
- Mariote Agare
- William Saundres
- Agnes Basset
- Thomas atte Bourne
- John Midwyntur (Midwinter)
- John Reger
- Hugh Cledone
- William Somoner
- Walter Cledon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1348 in PROME, parliament of January 1348, appendix no. 11.
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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 5654
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.177a (no.7) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January 1348, Appendix, no. 11 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106891/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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