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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Doctors, bachelors, scholars and students of civil and canon law at Oxford University....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4245
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This record is about the Doctors, bachelors, scholars and students of civil and canon law at Oxford University.... dating from [1376] 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 8/85/4245
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Doctors, bachelors, scholars and students of civil and canon law at Oxford University.
- Addressees
- King and council in parliament.
- Nature of request
- [A large part of this petition has been torn away.]The doctors, bachelors, scholars and students of civil and canon law at Oxford University state that they have long sued to the King's council for a remedy for the banishments of Thomas Mountagu and Henry Yngelby, and for an ordinance maliciously made by the Chancellor, proctors and regents of the Unversity against the faculties of civil and canon law, without the assent of the doctors or others of these faculties, and that on the advice of the King's council they were ordered by various writs to keep the university according to the statutes and customs formerly in use, and that the said bachelors and scholars should receive . . . estates without being coerced or bound by new oaths or bonds . . . in this parliament, where a final remedy should be ordained and discussed . . . the said patents, writs and commands of the King . . . made a new statute against those named . . . great and horrible contempt to our lord the King . . . faculties so that the one and the other . . . in this present parliament . . ..
- Nature of endorsement
- The Bishops of London, Ely, St David's, Chichester and Salisbury are to be appointed to bring them to an agreement on the matter contained in the petition, and if the same bishops cannot bring them to an agreement, the Archbishop of Canterbury will be [appointed] to bring them to a final agreement.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Mountagu (Montagu)
- Henry Yngelby
- [William Courtenay], Bishop of London
- [Thomas Arundel], Bishop of Ely
- [Adam Houghton], Bishop of St David's
- [Ralph Erghum], Bishop of Salisbury
- [William Reade], Bishop of Chichester
- [Simon Sudbury], Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1374-7 p.325 is dated 20 June 1376, and is clearly in response to this petition.
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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 6383
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.325 (appointment of the bishops mentioned in the endorsement as arbiters)
- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.140 (no.94) (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148787/
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