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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Men and commons of the Isle of Guernsey. Council. The men and commons request remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5650
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/113/5650
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1400
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Men and commons of the Isle of Guernsey.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The men and commons request remedy as although they are accustomed to pay their farm in money tournois to the king in the way that the duke of Normandy received it in Normandy, but notwithstanding this the officers of Huet and subsequently have charged the petitioners to pay otherwise than they are accustomed to do. They further request that they can pay in money Tournois.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be remembered that on 4 June 1 [Henry IV] it was agreed by the council, the chancellor, treasurer, keeper of the privy seal, John Cheyne and John Prophete that the letters patent under the great seal be made in due form according to the purport and content of this bill.
- Places mentioned
- Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
- Normandy, [France].
- People mentioned
- Duke of Normandy
- Walter Huet, late keeper of the Isle
- Robert Norton
- William de la Rue
- [John Scarle], Chancellor
- [John Norbury], Treasurer
- [Richard Clifford], keeper of the privy seal
- John Cheyne
- Master John Prophete.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1400 as the response of the petition dates this to 4 June 1 [Hen. IV]. The hand of the petition is not of 1 Richard II, though this evidently misled the dating of the document in Channel Islands Petitions, and in the initial guard notes.
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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 3787
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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)
- Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.85 (full calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150323/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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