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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and convent of Ely. King and council. The petitioners request observation of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/110/5458
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Ely. King and council. The petitioners request observation of... dating from [c. 1321] 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 8/110/5458
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1321]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Ely.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request observation of their right to take fines and amercements and chattels of felons and fugitives within their liberty, which has been challenged in the Exchequer in the case of the chattels of Thomas de Weylaund, and others.
- Nature of endorsement
- The chancellor is to issue a writ to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to allow this case.
- Places mentioned
- Ely, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Weylaund (Weyland).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is transcribed in a bundle relating to 1321-22 in Rot. Parl., I, p. 407; the disgrace and confiscation of the king's justice Thomas Weyland had occurred a good deal earlier, in 1289.
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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 3264
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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)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.407b (edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, no. 119 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150123/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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