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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam de Kerseye (Kersey). de Kerseye (Kersey) Adam King. Kerseye requests an oyer...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/178/8853
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/178/8853
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1304]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam de Kerseye (Kersey).
- Name(s)
- de Kerseye (Kersey), Adam
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Kerseye requests an oyer and terminer to examine the outrages committed against him, and he requests that Staunton, Suthcote, Foxley, and Beufou be assigned. Rucote and others came to his houses at Bayworth and Sunningwell and took away his goods and chattels to his great damage, and le Pouere and others came to Abingdon and took him and imprisoned him against the peace.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].The king himself has enquired into this petition.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Scotland
- Cumnor, [Oxfordshire]
- Bayworth, [Oxfordshire]
- Abingdon, [Oxfordshire]
- Sunningwell, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Seint Johan (St John)
- Richard de Rucote
- John Terry
- Richard de la Sale of Cumnor
- Hugh de Hertwell (Hartwell)
- Edmund [de Hertwell (Hartwell)], brother of Hugh de Hertwell
- Gregory le Harper
- Robert le Blowere
- Robert de Maners
- Steven de Couele (Cowley)
- Walter le Pouere
- . . . de Shepene
- John le Prentiz
- John de Stininton
- John le Mareschal (Marshal) of Abingdon
- John le [. . .]
- Hervy de Staunton
- Roger de Suthcote (Southcote)
- John de Foxle (Foxley)
- Roger de Beufou (Beaufou).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1304 when commissions of oyer and terminer were issued into the matter (CPR 1301-7, p.275).
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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 I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.275 (oyer and terminers into the matters)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294721/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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