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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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Edmund de Wodestok (Woodstock). de Wodestok (Woodstock) Edmund King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/147/7324
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This record is about the Edmund de Wodestok (Woodstock). de Wodestok (Woodstock) Edmund King and council.... dating from [1318] 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 8/147/7324
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Edmund de Wodestok (Woodstock).
- Name(s)
- de Wodestok (Woodstock), Edmund
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Edmund de Wodestok, to whom the King granted the manor of Lifton, together with the hundred and appurtenances, states that, before it came into the King's hand, the lords of that hundred used to receive a fine of 28s. annually, together with the amercements of the men of the hundred once a year, at the county court at Exeter, but that now the Sheriff in his tourn takes this fine and the amercements. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have a writ to have the Sheriff appear to answer on the contents of the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Lifton, Devon
- Lifton hundred, Devon
- Exeter, Devon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A Latin summary of this petition is found on the roll of the parliament of October 1318 (Docs. Illus. English History p.33).
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.33 (edition of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209508/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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