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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Cavendish, citizen of London. Cavendish John King and Council. The petitioner...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/101/5047
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This record is about the John Cavendish, citizen of London. Cavendish John King and Council. The petitioner... dating from [c. 1384] 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 8/101/5047
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1384]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Cavendish, citizen of London.
- Name(s)
- Cavendish, John
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks the present parliament to have brought there the record and process of a certain plea of the petitioner (with all things concerning the same) to correct certain legal errors therein, stating that in the record and process and in the award of judgement of the plea in chancery before Michael de la Pole, between the petitioner and Manfeld, Paris, Haukyn and Horsman, upon a bill lately delivered to the king and council by the petitioner in the parliament at Westminster in year seven [1383-4], the bill was endorsed and ordered in chancery by the decision of parliament to have an open discussion there between the parties of the legal mistake plain to see by the aforesaid record.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None.]
- Places mentioned
- London
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Michael de la Pole, knight, lately chancellor
- Gilbert Manfeld (Magfeld), merchant
- Robert Paris, merchant
- John Haukyn, mariner
- Thomas Horsman, mariner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Note on guard relate this to c. 1384 on internal evidence and an incidental reference to the petitioner in CPR 1381-5, p.428.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition from Manfeld and his colleagues see SC 8/125/6221
For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/84/4191
For transcript, see no.44 of PRO 31/7/109
For a related petition see SC 8/214/10692
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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 1955
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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/C9149615/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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