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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons. King. The commons state that many people by misfortune of war or necessity...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/177/8824
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This record is about the Commons. King. The commons state that many people by misfortune of war or necessity... dating from [c. 1348] 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 8/177/8824
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The commons state that many people by misfortune of war or necessity have been forced to make statute merchants whereby execution has been made by favourable executions to the great damage of the debtor both by imprisonment or by favourable livery of their land: although many debtors, their heirs, executors or those to whom the reversion of the land pertains have been prepared to make satisfaction together with costs. They ask that if the debtors, their heirs, executors and those to whom the land will revert are prepared to make satisfaction in this way, but the creditors refuse it, the debtors might be able to re-enter the land and retain it quit of the debt.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because at the last parliament it was ordained that in such cases writs were to be sent to justices before whom such processes were pending to warn the land tenants to be at a certain day before them to receive the reasonable monies, mises, and costs, and to deliver the land to those who ought to hold it by . . . those . . . to such writs henceforth in similar cases.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1348 based on the dating of another petition on the same matter (Rot. Parl., vol. II::p.210a (no.20)).
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.210a (no.20) (another petition on the same matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294692/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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