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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot St Mary's, York. Duke of Gloucester and the lords spiritual and temporal in...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/153/7631
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/153/7631
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1422]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot St Mary's, York.
- Addressees
- Duke of Gloucester and the lords spiritual and temporal in the present parliament.
- Occupation
- Abbot St Mary's, York
- Nature of request
- [The lower section of the petition is badly damaged, and the full sense of the request is difficult to recover].The abbot requests that the sheriff make Lessels and other malefactors who broke his close called Hobriddyng in Deighton, driving out his livestock and pasturing the beast of Escrick appear before the chancellor to other for this and for the assault made against Cottingham and Straunton, and if they do not appear to make a commission of oyer and terminer.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let keepers of the peace be made . . .and how at the . . . of the petition . . .
- Places mentioned
- Deighton, [East Riding of] Yorkshire]
- Escrick, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Robert Lessels of Escrick
- John Cotyngham (Cottingham), bursar and monk of St Mary's
- Robert Straunton, servant of the abbot.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the basis of the guard note to? 1422. This is presumably made on the basis of the address in the petition.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.8 of PRO 31/7/115
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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/C9209820/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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