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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Hugh Berri (Berry) of Norfolk. Berri (Berry) Hugh King and council. Berri requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8605
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This record is about the Hugh Berri (Berry) of Norfolk. Berri (Berry) Hugh King and council. Berri requests... dating from [1340] 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 8/173/8605
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hugh Berri (Berry) of Norfolk.
- Name(s)
- Berri (Berry), Hugh
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Berri requests that he can have his lands and chattels and be at peace and do to the king as other people of the commons do, as £40 was demanded from him by the king's ministers for the grant made by the commons to the king, and his lands and chattels were taken into the king's hand so that he could not enter any of his houses or have any administration of his goods so that he had nothing to live on, and it was ordered to take his body so that he could not reside in the county.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be ordered to the sheriff that he remove his hand if the lands were not taken for another reason, and if it was for another reason then he should certify the reason and he should suffer the body in peace.Let it be ordered that Strange should be taken to come before the council to answer for the oppressions that he has made against the people.
- Places mentioned
- Norfolk.
- People mentioned
- John le Strange, bailiff.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1340 when the arrest of Strange was ordered in accordance with the response to the petition (CPR 1340-3, p.88).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1340-1343, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.88 (order to arrest Strange to have him before the council)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294471/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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