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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty of Norfolk and Suffolk. King and council The commonalty request that the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/64/3200
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This record is about the Commonalty of Norfolk and Suffolk. King and council The commonalty request that the... dating from [1332-1333] 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 8/64/3200
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1332-1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of Norfolk and Suffolk.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The commonalty request that the office of sheriff is filled by a worthy man of sense and reason such as Chastel, . . . or Wachesham or another suitable man, and complain of the evils done by sheriffs to those ill-equipped to withstand them, and more particularly they complain of the evils done by Bacunsthorp.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- [Coram] rege et magno consilio.2) Petitions of the commons are . . .
- Places mentioned
- Norfolk
- Suffolk.
- People mentioned
- Edmund de Bacunsthorp (Baconesthorp), Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
- Gregory de Chastel
- Giles de Wachesham.
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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 6008
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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/C9106963/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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