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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the barons of Dover, stating that their...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/196/9765
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the barons of Dover, stating that their... dating from [1276] 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 8/196/9765
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1276]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to Edward I from the barons of Dover, stating that their fellow-baron, John de Hethe or de Fokeston, has been attached while trading at Newcastle upon Tyne for the murder of certain men of Newcastle committed two years ago. They state that he is innocent, and ask that he might be tried in the court of Shipway, according to the laws and customs of the Cinque Ports, and that the Bailiffs of Newcastle might be ordered to hand him over to his fellow-barons, to answer in this court to anyone wishing to complain against him.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Dover, [Kent]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Cinque Ports
- Hythe, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
- the barons of Dover
- John de Hethe (Hythe), alias John de Fokeston (Folkestone), baron of Dover
- Henry Clericus (Clerk), father of John de Hethe
- Henry [III], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1272-79 p.301 is dated 8 July 1276, and is clearly in response to this petition.
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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)
- Latin
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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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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.230-1 (no.204) (full edition of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1279, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.301 (order to the Mayor and Bailiffs of Newcastle to hand John de Hethe over to certain named persons, to answer in the court of Shipway to all wishing to accuse him)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295653/
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