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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
Item
Christiana Poer, widow of John Poer. Poer Christiana King and council. Poer requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8537
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This record is about the Christiana Poer, widow of John Poer. Poer Christiana King and council. Poer requests... dating from [c. 1270-c. 1280] 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 8/171/8537
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1270-c. 1280]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Christiana Poer, widow of John Poer.
- Name(s)
- Poer, Christiana
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Poer requests remedy for the injustices committed against her by Ryteler after she impleaded him by a writ of trespass.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Bedfordshire.
- People mentioned
- Guy de Ryteler
- Master Roger de Seyton, justice of the bench.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1270-c. 1280 as the petition refers to Roger de Seaton as justice of the Bench, and he served as justice from 1270-3, and chief justice from 1274-8, and while it is not clear whether he was still serving from the petition, the hand suggests an early petition of about this date range (Sainty, Judges of England, pp.45, 58).
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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/C9294402/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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