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Chancellors, bachelors and students of Oxford and Cambridge Universities King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/132/6587

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SC 8/132/6587
Date
[? 1342-? 1350]
Description
Petitioners
Chancellors, bachelors and students of Oxford and Cambridge Universities
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Petition concerning the relief of the clergy of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Nature of endorsement
[None.]
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
Note
Dated to the period 1342-1350 by L.T. Smith, 'Petitions Relating to Oxford', p.136, from where much of the detail given here is taken.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.136 (no.88) (translation and discussion of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208768/

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