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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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Abbot of Tewkesbury. King and council. Abbot of Tewkesbury Abbot of Tewkesbury requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/75/3730
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This record is about the Abbot of Tewkesbury. King and council. Abbot of Tewkesbury Abbot of Tewkesbury requests... dating from [c. 1290] 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 8/75/3730
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Tewkesbury.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Tewkesbury
- Nature of request
- Abbot of Tewkesbury requests a remedy for the continual wrongful suits sued against him by Emma Spylewyne: which she is able to do because she can have the writs for nothing, and has nothing to lose when she loses her suit.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Tewkesbury, [Gloucestershire]
- Dorset.
- People mentioned
- Emma Spylewyne of Dorset.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. I p.56a (no. 125) is from a roll ascribed to the Easter parliament of 1290 by Richardson and Sayles (The English Parliament in the Middle Ages, XIX, pp.146-7). This petition is clearly part of the same dispute.
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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 7915
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.56a (no.125) (summary on parliament roll of petition of Emma Spylewyne, requesting an attaint against the Abbot and his bailiffs)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107504/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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