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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
John .... John King and [council]. [The petition is badly damaged with only a portion...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/106/5262
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This record is about the John .... John King and [council]. [The petition is badly damaged with only a portion... dating from [c. 1327-c. 1330] 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 8/106/5262
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327-c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John ....
- Name(s)
- John
- Addressees
- King and [council].
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged with only a portion of the left-hand side surviving].The petitioner requests remedy on a matter which Hugh Despenser and Roger Mortimer have been involved, and on which he has petitioned in successive parliaments.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be sent before the justices assigned to hold the pleas of the king and they will call before them the parties and hear their arguments and do right.
- People mentioned
- Hugh le Despenser
- [Roger] Mortimer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Only a fragment of the petition survives but the references to Hugh Despenser and [Roger] Mortimer suggest that it may date from shortly after the fall of the former (in 1326) or of the latter (in 1330), and thus have been submitted in the early years of Edward III.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.71 of PRO 31/7/96
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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 2696
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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/C9149832/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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