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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons. King and council. The commonalty requests redress because the king and his...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/165/8223
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This record is about the Commons. King and council. The commonalty requests redress because the king and his... dating from [1330] 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 8/165/8223
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty requests redress because the king and his ancestors have granted to many towns that they should not be sued outside the borders of their liberties for anything done within their liberties, so that the residents beat and kill the people coming there because they are assured that they themselves will have jurisdiction over their own acts and will acquit themselves.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let those who feel themselves aggrieved sue at common law, and if they cannot be assisted by it, the king with apply another remedy.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1330 with reference to Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.37.
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.37a (no. 32) (edition of petition)
- The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), pp.401-2 (no. ii) (translation of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 32 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294068/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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