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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Clifford. de Clifford John King and council in Parliament. The petitioner...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/102/5079
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This record is about the John de Clifford. de Clifford John King and council in Parliament. The petitioner... dating from [c. 1379] 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 8/102/5079
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Clifford.
- Name(s)
- de Clifford, John
- Addressees
- King and council in Parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks that consideration be given to the [wishes of] the lords and commons for his charter of pardon, after which he will return to England and seek recovery of his demesne lands and other lands in parliament according to the will of the king. As he has no wages and is in the king's service on the sea, he also asks for sustenance until he should recover his demesne lands, or others of the same value. He shows that he was exiled for the killing of Coupland and stayed in foreign realms for sixteen years to his great hardship and injury, and at all times held his allegiance of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- England.
- People mentioned
- John de Coupland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Coupland was killed just before Christmas 1363 so the internal reference to a lapse of sixteen years since that time suggests a date c. 1379.
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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 2042
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.372b (earlier request of Clifford for pardon)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149649/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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