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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Swynton. Swynton John King and council. Request for restitution of jewellery...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/139/6910
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This record is about the John Swynton. Swynton John King and council. Request for restitution of jewellery... dating from [1378] 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 8/139/6910
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Swynton.
- Name(s)
- Swynton, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Request for restitution of jewellery to the value of 250 marks taken by Alice Perrers from the petitioner's wife at the time that he was on the king's service in Brittany with the earl of Cambridge [in 1374-5].
- Places mentioned
- Brittany, [France].
- People mentioned
- Alice Perrers
- Joan [Swynton], wife of the petitioner
- [Edmund of Langley,] Earl of Cambridge.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Like other petitions against Alice Perrers, this is datable to the parliament of October 1378 on the basis of annotations on SC 8/94/4691 and SC 8/148/7363, which refer specifically to petitions against Alice in that parliament.
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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/C9209094/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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