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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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Sheriffs and bailiffs of the wapentakes and hundreds, and bailiwicks and franchises...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8465
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This record is about the Sheriffs and bailiffs of the wapentakes and hundreds, and bailiwicks and franchises... dating from [1334] 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 8/170/8465
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Sheriffs and bailiffs of the wapentakes and hundreds, and bailiwicks and franchises of the land.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request remedy as lay and clerks indicted before such ministers and whereof by writ they ought to be attached, ordinaries of the Church often pronounce general sentence against all those who attach clerks so that they dare not act.
- Nature of endorsement
- This is not a petition of parliament.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1334 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 8 Edw. III (1334) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.76a (no.15)).
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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.76a (no.15) (full edition of later copy of original 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. 73-89, no. 15 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294314/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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