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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Messengers of the commonalty of the Isle of Jersey. Council. The messengers request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7856
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This record is about the Messengers of the commonalty of the Isle of Jersey. Council. The messengers request... dating from [c. 1342] 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 8/158/7856
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1342]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Messengers of the commonalty of the Isle of Jersey.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The messengers request remedy for the extortions, damages and many other imprisonments made by More for which they have feeble remedy, and that they have been informed that Hampton has sent many wicked people from Portsmouth to Jersey who have robbed and killed many of the people, and more are being collected at Southampton.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Jersey, [Channel Islands]
- Portsmouth, [Hampshire]
- Southampton, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- Henry de la More, lieutenant of Thomas de Hampton in Jersey
- Thomas de Hampton
- William du Mount.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1342 as the dissention on the island caused the appointment of justices to consider the matter, and to an order to the keeper of the islands to restore the goods of the people (CCR 1341-3, p.597; CPR 1343-5, p.83).
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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)
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- Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.75 (full summary of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1341-1343, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.597 (order to Hampton to restore the goods held at the castle)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1343-1345, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.83 (appointment of William Cheyny and others to examine the reasons for the dissension between Hampton and More on the one part, and the people of Jersey)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210048/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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