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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Berkeley. de Berkeley Thomas King and council. Berkeley requests a remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/91/4522
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This record is about the Thomas de Berkeley. de Berkeley Thomas King and council. Berkeley requests a remedy... dating from [c. 1283] 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 8/91/4522
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1283]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Berkeley.
- Name(s)
- de Berkeley, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Berkeley requests a remedy in accordance with an inquisition lately returned concerning his and others rights in certain hundreds. The earl of Gloucester and his father had withdrawn suitors from his hundred and usurped other rights but surrendered them into the king's hand when a quo warranto showed that he had no warrant for the same.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is answered in another petition.
- Places mentioned
- Somerset.
- People mentioned
- Richard de [Clare], Earl of Gloucester
- [Gilbert de Clare], Earl of Gloucester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition probably dates to shortly after 1283 as the inquisition referred to in the petition dates to 1283 (CIM 1219-1307, no.1291).
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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 495
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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 Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1291 (inquisition into the rights of Berkeley)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.18-19 (edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 32(iii) (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149068/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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