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Executors of Nicholas Page. [Missing.] Bill in eyre concerning the taking of arms...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/134/6695

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This record is about the Executors of Nicholas Page. [Missing.] Bill in eyre concerning the taking of arms... dating from [1293] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/134/6695
Date
[1293]
Description
Petitioners
Executors of Nicholas Page.
Addressees
[Missing.]
Nature of request
Bill in eyre concerning the taking of arms and armour.
Nature of endorsement
Pledges to prosecute: Thomas le Merchant, Robert de Massy.Not prosecuted.They seek a licence to withdraw. And they have it.Presented by the bailiffs of Pirehill.
Places mentioned
Stafford, [Staffordshire]
Aldelyme (Audley), [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
Nicholas Page.
Note
From the endorsements and the people concerned, this is clearly a stray plaint from the Staffordshire eyre of 1293, the other plaints for which are now in JUST 1/1553 (with further strays elsewhere). The eyre took place between 7 and 22 January 1293 in Lichfield, and 27 January and 25 February 1293 in Stafford (D. Crook, Records of the General Eyre, p.176).
Related material

For further plaints from this eyre see JUST 1/1553

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208877/

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