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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Poor liege people of King's Barton. King and council. The people of the King's Barton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/97/4826
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This record is about the Poor liege people of King's Barton. King and council. The people of the King's Barton... dating from [c. 1330-c. 1340] 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 8/97/4826
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330-c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Poor liege people of King's Barton.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of the King's Barton request relief against Sir Thomas Bradeston, who has the keeping of Gloucester castle and who has oppressed them; they report the case of Bradeston's valet, Peter de Seynt Combe, who notoriously murdered William de Melkesham and his own wife but was acquitted because of his connection with Bradeston and the latter's wife. Many other complaints against Bradeston and his followers cannot be brought for fear of his power in the county: if Bradeston were not so close to the king, a thousand petitions would be brought against him. At court he is a little saint, but in his country he is a raging lion.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Another such bill was delivered to the clerk who has lost it.[None on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- King's Barton (Gloucestershire)
- Gloucester Castle [Gloucestershire]
- Berkeley Castle [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Bradeston (Bradestone)
- [Isabel] de Bradeston (Bradestone)
- Peter de Seynt Combe (St Comb), servant [valet] of Thomas de Bradeston
- William de Melkesham
- Hugh Arlos, steward of Thomas de Bradeston.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.109 of PRO 31/7/130
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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 1244
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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)
- Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, N. Saul, (Clarendon Press, 1981), pp.266-267 (no. 3) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149393/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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