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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty of Devon. King and council. The petitioners ask that the king order his...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/108/5368
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This record is about the Commonalty of Devon. King and council. The petitioners ask that the king order his... dating from [c. 1320-c.1327] 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 8/108/5368
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320-c.1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of Devon.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask that the king order his commissioners to make perambulation of Dartmoor, which the parliament of Lincoln ordered to be done by Foxle and Bourne, and the last parliament at York ordered to be done by Bourne and Henry.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the justices assigned to the matter make the perambulation as required by their commission.
- Places mentioned
- Devon
- Dartmoor, [Devon].
- People mentioned
- John de Foxle
- William de Bourne
- Nicholas Henry.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable on the basis of internal references to parliaments at Lincoln and York to some time after 1319, and presumed to date within the reign of Edward II.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.27 of PRO 31/7/95
For a related petition, see SC 8/258/12892
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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 2891
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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/C9149939/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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