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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Justices of the King. King. The Justices request that the king repeal the 'heinous'...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/117/5843
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/117/5843
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Justices of the King.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The Justices request that the king repeal the 'heinous' statutes concerning his justices, barons of the Exchequer and other judges made in the last parliament, which are to the great dishonour of the justices and the destruction of the law.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in PROME to the October 1385 Parliament. Mis-dated to 1383-4 in Rot. Parl., vol. IV, p.176.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.61 of PRO 31/7/109
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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 4421
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.176 (no.6) (full 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), Parliament of October 1385, appendix, no. 15 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150522/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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