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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty of Staffordshire. King and council. Request for the appointment of justices...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/138/6886
What’s it about?
This record is about the Commonalty of Staffordshire. King and council. Request for the appointment of justices... 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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/138/6886
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1325-c. 1375]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of Staffordshire.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Request for the appointment of justices in the shire, as there have been no sessions for the last four years and the county is in peril.
- Nature of endorsement
- The chancellor and treasurer will assign them in chancery.Coram magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Staffordshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is difficult to date precisely, but from the hand and form, and the use of French in the endorsement, it would appear to date from the second or third quarters of the fourteenth century.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209070/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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