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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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Many of the people of the land. King and council. The petitioners request that an...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/79/3930
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This record is about the Many of the people of the land. King and council. The petitioners request that an... dating from [c. 1325-c. 1375] 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 8/79/3930
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1325-c. 1375]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Many of the people of the land.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that an attaint upon inquisitions in writs of trespass be granted or some other suitable remedy be ordained as certain people coveting the land of many people have by legal contrivance and in false alliance with people of the country disinherited many of their lands.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is agreed that they should have an attaint.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition has been speculatively dated to c. 1325-c. 1375 as the petition is printed in Rot. Parl. amongst the 'Annis incertis Edwardi III' petitions with no other supporting evidence to narrow the date. A 50 year span has been adopted as not all of the petitions attributed in this way in Rot. Parl. are of the reign of Edward III.
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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 3095
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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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- Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.757 note 97(discussion of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.407b (no.166) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107706/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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