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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and monks of St Neots. King and council. The prior and monks of St Neots request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8518
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This record is about the Prior and monks of St Neots. King and council. The prior and monks of St Neots request... dating from [? 1285-? 1310] 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 8/171/8518
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1285-? 1310]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and monks of St Neots.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The prior and monks of St Neots request remedy, stating that their house is not near the sea or any port, and although it is on a river, it is ninety-six leagues from the sea. They have nine mills, mill-ponds and sluices at Paxton and elsewhere, but the Isle of Ely lies between them and the sea. [The actual request appears to involve an action by the sheriff of Huntingdonshire, but that part of the petition is now illegible.]
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- St Neots, Huntingdonshire
- Bec Hellouin, [Normandy, France]
- Paxton, [Huntingdonshire]
- Offord D'Arcy, [Huntingdonshire]
- Buckden, [Huntingdonshire]
- Brampton, [Huntingdonshire]
- Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire]
- Hartford, [Huntingdonshire]
- Houghton, [Huntingdonshire]
- Hemingford Abbots, [Huntingdonshire]
- Isle of Ely, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Earl of Gloucester
- sheriff of Huntingdonshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to? 1285-? 1310 on the basis of the hand.
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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/C9294383/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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