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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty of the county of Hampshire. King. The commonalty request that Magna Carta...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/175/8720
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This record is about the Commonalty of the county of Hampshire. King. The commonalty request that Magna Carta... dating from [1290] 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 8/175/8720
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of the county of Hampshire.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty request that Magna Carta be observed and all the forest that was afforested in the time of Henry II and John be disafforested in accordance with it, and the commonalty will give the king 200 marks.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) The king previously sent trustworthy men to see and do this, and seeing these things were not to be done they did not wish to do it and the king is not advised to do it.
- Places mentioned
- Hampshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1290 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the parliament roll from Easter 1290 (PROME, roll 02, Introduction).
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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. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.55a (no.114) (Latin summary of petition with no response)
- 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), roll 02, appendix, no.138 (full edition and translation of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294588/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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