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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 8/101/5048
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This record is about the Chancellor and Scholars of Cambridge University. King and Lords of Parliament. The... dating from [1390] 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 8/101/5048
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1390]
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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 ask the present parliament to order final remedy for their injuries. They show that they sued a petition to the last parliament concerning certain of their grievances (and those of their servants), of indictments made against them in the said town before various judges, which petition was answered as follows: that neither the petitioners nor their servants are to be impeached, attached, taken, molested etc., by colour of any manner of presentment or indictment by any of the people of Cambridge, of felonies, trespasses, or imprisonments, or be brought before any of the town's officers etc., until the next parliament, and that they (and their servants) have writs for their necessities in the meantime.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wills by the agreement of his council in this parliament that the petitioners have a similar grant until the next parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by reference to CPR 1388-92, p.330.
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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 1956
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.330 (grant to the scholars of Cambridge University that they shall not be impleaded until the next parliament)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149616/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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