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Catalogue reference: SC 8/196/9788
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [This document is almost entirely illegible.]Apparently a copy... dating from 1327 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 8/196/9788
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1327
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- [This document is almost entirely illegible.]Apparently a copy of the record and process against John de Moubray, held in the gaol in York castle, on Wednesday, the eve of the Annunciation . . .
- Nature of endorsement
- This record and process were read and recited before King Edward, son of King Edward, son of King Edward, the prelates, earls, barons and other nobles, and the whole council in his full parliament summoned at Westminster on the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the first year of his reign; and because it was established in the same that the aforesaid John, in time of peace - especially as it is well known that the time at which the judgment was brought, and all the things which the lord Edward, lately King of England, father of the present lord King had recorded that the same John was alleged to have done, were during time of peace, because the same father of the present King never rode out with banners unfurled, and Chancery and his other courts were open to do justice to each person - was adjudged to death by the record of the King's same father, without . . . response or legal judgment of his peers, contrary to the approved law and custom of the realm and the tenor of the Great Charter of the liberties of England, in which it is contained that no free man is to be arrested or imprisoned or disseised of his free tenement or liberties or free customs, or outlawed or exiled, or destroyed in any way, or that the King is to go over him or place anything over him except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land: it is agreed by the same King and the prelates, earls, barons and other nobles and the council that the judgment brought in this way against the aforesaid John is to be revoked and annulled as erroneous, and the heir is to be admitted to claim and have his inheritance by due process, as is the custom.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Tickhill, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- John de Moubray
- Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster
- Edward [III], King of England
- Edward [II], King of England
- Edward [I], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to the 1327 parliament from the endorsement.CFR 1327-37 p.20 is dated 22 February 1327.
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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)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.20 (commitment to John, son of John de Moubray, a minor, of wardship of his father's lands, except those in the Isle of Axholme)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295676/
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