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Commons of the Clarendon forest. King. The petitioners show that in year twenty-nine...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/102/5099
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This record is about the Commons of the Clarendon forest. King. The petitioners show that in year twenty-nine... dating from [c. 1377] 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 8/102/5099
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the Clarendon forest.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners show that in year twenty-nine of King Edward [III] [1355-6], the king ordered six foresters at his wages and customs, that is to say: three in Clarendon, two in Grovely, and one in Melchet, to keep the vert and venison in the aforesaid forests, to which there was insufficient answer, by which certain men were granted lands for the service of keeping the same, that is to say: Hugh Cheyne (two foresters for Laverstock and Milford), Roger Clenum (one forester for Pitton), John Blaunchard (one forester for Grovely), John Butesthorn (one forester for Mulchet), which were sufficient to answer to the king etc. The petitioners seek discharge from the excessive costs, and for the saving of vert and venison that the king order such tenants to have sufficient to answer to him and to the petitioners for the offices appurtenant to the said lands, in order to have other tenants.
- Nature of endorsement
- Alan de Buxhill, Keeper of all the Forests, appeals for more information to the king's council upon this matter.
- Places mentioned
- Clarendon forest, [Wiltshire]
- Grovely wood, [Wiltshire]
- Melchet forest, [Wiltshire]
- Laverstock, [Wiltshire]
- Milford, [Wiltshire]
- Pitton, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Edward III, King of England
- Hugh Cheyne
- Roger Clenum
- John Blaunchard
- John de Butesthorn
- Alan de Buxhill.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Internal evidence indicates that this petition must date from early in the reign of Richard II.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.18 of PRO 31/7/110
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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 2068
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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/C9149669/
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