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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Brokhull (Brockhall), formerly Sheriff of Kent. Brokhull (Brockhall) Thomas...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/95/4750
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This record is about the Thomas Brokhull (Brockhall), formerly Sheriff of Kent. Brokhull (Brockhall) Thomas... dating from [1386] 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 8/95/4750
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1386]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Brokhull (Brockhall), formerly Sheriff of Kent.
- Name(s)
- Brokhull (Brockhall), Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Sheriff of Kent
- Nature of request
- Thomas Brokhull, formerly Sheriff of Kent, states that because Canterbury castle, where the gaol of the county should be, is in a ruinous state, the Sheriffs have for some time used a house next to the castle as gaol; and that two years before last Christmas one Stephen Pillyng, kept in irons in that house for a debt he owed to Robert Abbot, executor of the testament of Henry Lyndraper, was rescued from there by an armed gang. Now Robert is suing him for this debt, and he asks that he might be discharged of it.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Kent
- Canterbury, Kent.
- People mentioned
- Robert Abbot, executor of the testament of Henry Lyndraper
- Henry Lyndraper
- Stephen Pillyng (Pilling)
- John Catisby (Catesby), gaoler.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Thomas Brokhull was Sheriff of Kent from 26 May 1383 to 11 November 1384. The attack would seem to have taken place at Christmas 1383, so the petition would have been delivered two years and more later, in 1386.
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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 956
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149314/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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