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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot of Fecamp. [None]. Abbot of Fecamp [The petition is damaged and much of the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5539
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This record is about the Abbot of Fecamp. [None]. Abbot of Fecamp [The petition is damaged and much of the... dating from [1305] 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 8/111/5539
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Fecamp.
- Addressees
- [None].
- Occupation
- Abbot of Fecamp
- Nature of request
- [The petition is damaged and much of the petition is obscured].The abbot requests remedy as he holds the hundred of Salmonsbury but the people of Lower Swell make suit to the hundred of Kiftsgate.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ returnable into Chancery to the sheriff to enquire if the vill of Lower Swell pertains to the hundred of Salmonsbury or not, and to take an inquisition upon this, and when it is retuned let what ought to be done be done.
- Places mentioned
- Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
- Kiftsgate hundred, Gloucestershire
- Salmonsbury hundred, Gloucester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1305 by the inquisition held on the matter dating to April 1305 (CIM 1216-1307, no.1959).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another earlier petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/316/E217
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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 3501
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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)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1959 (inquisition on the matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150205/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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