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Commons of the hundred of Crondall, Hampshire. King and council. The commons request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5636

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This record is about the Commons of the hundred of Crondall, Hampshire. King and council. The commons request... dating from [c. 1378] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/113/5636
Date
[c. 1378]
Description
Petitioners
Commons of the hundred of Crondall, Hampshire.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The commons request a remedy as the hundred was disafforested, but now the bishop of Winchester is claiming free chase in their hundred to their ruin.
Nature of endorsement
[None.]
Places mentioned
Crondall hundred, Hampshire
Westminster
Hampshire
Bagshot, [Surrey]
Windsor, [Berkshire]
Aldershot Forest, [Hampshire]
Honnyngeswere [unidentified]
Surrey
Woolpit, [Surrey]
Weybourne, [Surrey]
Glorney, [Surrey]
Longbridge, [Surrey]
Linsford, [Surrey]
Chilworth, [Surrey]
Bladeworth [unidentified], [Surrey]
Eversley, [Hampshire]
Winchester, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
[John] de Berwick, justice
William [Wykeham], Bishop of Winchester
Henry [II], King of England
Richard [I], King of England
John, King of England
Henry [III], King of England
Edward [I], King of England.
Note
The petition is difficult to date precisely, and on the basis of the hand and the address has been suggested as dating from the last quarter of the fourteenth century; however, SC 8/103/5112, which is a near duplicate of this, is dated tentatively to c. 1378, and that is the date assigned here.
Related material

For a near duplicate of this petition see SC 8/103/5112

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3752
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150308/

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