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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbess of Godstow. King. Abbess of Godstow The abbess requests that the king grant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5667
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This record is about the Abbess of Godstow. King. Abbess of Godstow The abbess requests that the king grant... dating from [1283] 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 8/114/5667
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1283]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbess of Godstow.
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Abbess of Godstow
- Nature of request
- The abbess requests that the king grant a licence for Writtle to grant up to a carucate of land in Highworth and Blunsdon as the land is held from several lords but not from the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Highworth, [Wiltshire]
- Blunsdon, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Wrytele (Writtle).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition probably dates to the Michaelmas parliament of 1283, this petition being so assigned by PROME (1283, Michaelmas parliament, appendix, no.1).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.38 of PRO 31/7/92
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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 3809
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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)
- Latin
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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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- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.96-7 (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), 1283, Michaelmas parliament, appendix, no.1 (reference indicating that this petition is likely to come from this parliament)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150340/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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