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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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Not specified. King and council. The petitioners request clarification of the charters...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/146/7263
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This record is about the Not specified. King and council. The petitioners request clarification of the charters... dating from [c. 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 8/146/7263
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Not specified.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request clarification of the charters of the Abbot of Westminster, as certain ambiguities in them are causing harm to many people.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Westminster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III p.50b-51b (no. 4) assigns this petition to 2 Richard II (22 June 1378 - 21 June 1379), and more specifically, to the parliament held at Gloucester, on the Wednesday following the feast of St Luke, 2 Richard II (1378).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.149 of PRO 31/7/106
The response to this petitions is SC 8/18/897
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.50b-51b(no.4) (full edition of original petition and response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209446/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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