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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University. King and Lords of Parliament. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/101/5018
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This record is about the Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University. King and Lords of Parliament. The... dating from [c. 1414] 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 8/101/5018
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1414]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University.
- Addressees
- King and Lords of Parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek commissions of oyer and terminer to enquire into various imprisonments, loss of goods, disseisins etc., suffered by them ... and that all indictments for felonies and injuries made against them should be made null and void.
- Nature of endorsement
- In answer to this petition the king declared before the lords spiritual and temporal in the parliament held at Leicester in the second year of his reign, how many riots, mischiefs, inconveniences, and many grievances within the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to their perpetual prejudice. For the good governance and conservation of the universities these mischiefs etc., require remedy, from the agreement of the lords that due provision and ordinance should be established by the advice of the same, of the same king and council summoned, and also the lords' clerks and other persons [deemed] necessary to this by the authority of parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Leicester, [Leicestershire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by reference to the Leicester parliament of 1414 (the second year of the reign of Henry V).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/100/4967
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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 1889
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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/C9149586/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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