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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Simon Couper of Tenterden, Kent. Couper Simon Council. Couper requests a remedy be...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8473
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This record is about the Simon Couper of Tenterden, Kent. Couper Simon Council. Couper requests a remedy be... dating from [c. 1390] 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 8/170/8473
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1390]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Simon Couper of Tenterden, Kent.
- Name(s)
- Couper, Simon
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Couper requests a remedy be ordained as Blosine claimed to be a clerk of market and to be able to enquire of false measures and other vessels, and made a false seal in deceit of the king and people, and sealed the petitioner's vessel called a potell pot or tankard for a penny.
- Nature of endorsement
- Blosine came before the council in June in the 13th year at Westminster and acknowledged that he sealed the vessels by virtue of his office as bailiff of the seven hundreds.
- Places mentioned
- Tenterden, [Kent]
- Halden, [Kent]
- Blackbourne hundred, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- William Blossine (Blossom).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c.1390 as it seems very likely that an entry detailing mainpernors for the petition in regard to Blossme concern the complaint made in this petition (CCR 1389-92, pp.189-90).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/168/8390
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), pp.189-90 (mainprise for the petitioner in relation to Blossme)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294322/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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