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Poor people pleading in King's Bench and the Exchequer. King and Council. The king...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/127/6302

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This record is about the Poor people pleading in King's Bench and the Exchequer. King and Council. The king... dating from [c. 1325-c. 1375] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/127/6302
Date
[c. 1325-c. 1375]
Description
Petitioners
Poor people pleading in King's Bench and the Exchequer.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of endorsement
The king shall be advised.Coram Rege.
People mentioned
The petitioners state that they cannot have justice against any bishop whose temporalities are in the king's hands, as those bishops cannot be distrained to appear on those temporalities. They therefore request remedy.
Note
Dated to the middle of the fourteenth century on the basis of the handwriting.
Related material

For transcript, see no.137 of PRO 31/7/97

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5739
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208477/

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