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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
Item
Abbot of . . . King and council. Abbot of . . . [The petition is badly damaged, and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/154/7653
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This record is about the Abbot of . . . King and council. Abbot of . . . [The petition is badly damaged, and... dating from [? c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/154/7653
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of . . .
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of . . .
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged, and is missing a third from its right-hand side so that the full sense is difficult to recover].The abbot requests that Chamberlain and Bolingbroke be assigned to enquire of the malefactors that against the king's peace burnt his mill . . .
- Nature of endorsement
- Justices should be assigned in . . . to enquire upon the contents in this petition . . .
- People mentioned
- Simon Chaumberlayn (Chamberlain)
- Nicholas de Bolyngbrok (Bolingbroke).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? c. 1318 on the basis of unrelated references to Chamberlain and Bolingbroke acting together and separately as justices in commissions of oyer and terminer (CPR 1317-21, pp.182, 278 etc.).
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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/C9209842/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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