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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger le Taylour (Tailor) of Mountsorrel. Taylour (Tailor) Roger King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/75/3723
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/75/3723
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger le Taylour (Tailor) of Mountsorrel.
- Name(s)
- Taylour (Tailor), Roger
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Roger le Taylour of Mountsorrel states that William Dogel, Bailiff of Mountsorrel, forcibly procured the release of William de Houton, arrested for breaking into Eve Hoyle's house and stealing her goods, and that he has amerced Roger in his absence in the court of Mountsorrel because he had purchased a writ to inquire into these felonies at the King's suit, and is preventing anything being done on this writ by his power. He also states that he has levied pavage by a false commission, and has done many other things against the King's peace. Roger asks that the truth of these things might be proved by twenty-four of the best men of the vill, and that the matter might be put right at common law.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to go to Chancery and have a writ at common law.
- Places mentioned
- Mountsorrel, Leicestershire.
- People mentioned
- William de Houton
- Eve Hoyle of Mountsorrel
- William Dogel, Bailiff of Mountsorrel.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A brief Latin summary of this petition appears on the roll of the parliament of October 1318 (Docs. Illus. English History p.34).
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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 7970
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.34 (edition of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107497/
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