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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Bailiffs of the hundred outside the north gate of Oxford. [None] Complaints of the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/78/3873
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This record is about the Bailiffs of the hundred outside the north gate of Oxford. [None] Complaints of the... dating from [c. 1275-c. 1300] 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 8/78/3873
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1275-c. 1300]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bailiffs of the hundred outside the north gate of Oxford.
- Addressees
- [None]
- Nature of request
- Complaints of the bailiffs:1) The men of the hundred should only be at the distress of the king, but are wrongfully distressed, imprisoned and excommunicated by the chancellor of the university.2) The Braundenes and many others came and stole fish and mowed the king's meadows.3) The Braundenes came again and mowed and wasted the meadow and took and destroyed the king's ferry boat.4) The Stapeltons freed Newton from prison following his surrender for his assault on Ceu's daughter.
- Nature of endorsement
- The sheriff and the chancellor of the university should be written to that they should hear the parties and do justice.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Braundene, clerk
- Simon de Braundene, clerk
- William de Neuton (Newton), clerk
- Richard le Ceu
- Nicholas de Stapelton
- Gibun [de Stapelton].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated notionally, on the basis of the hand, to the late thirteenth century.
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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 8482
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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)
- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.136-7 (no.89) (full summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107649/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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