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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Kirkby, clerk. Kirkby Robert Chancellor and council. clerk Kirkby recounts...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10720
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This record is about the Robert Kirkby, clerk. Kirkby Robert Chancellor and council. clerk Kirkby recounts... dating from [? 1389-? 1391] 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 8/215/10720
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1389-? 1391]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Kirkby, clerk.
- Name(s)
- Kirkby, Robert
- Addressees
- Chancellor and council.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- Kirkby recounts that he previously appeared before the council complaining about various wrongs done to him by John Hende, but that this bill has not been executed. The parties were assigned a day and the petitioner went to his hostel in Essex, ... Maundevill came with force and arms and entered the petitioner's close and beat and wounded him but he escaped with his life, to his damage of £100. Maundevill then threatened to kill him, for fear of which Kirkby left his lands and possessions and is now residing in London with his wife and six children, to his great cost and damage of £100. Kirkby requests that Maundevill be ordered to appear before the council to explain why he acted thus and that justice be done to the petitioner.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Winchester, [Hampshire]
- London
- Essex.
- People mentioned
- [William de Wykeham], bishop of Winchester, chancellor
- John Hende, citizen and draper of London
- Thomas Maundevill
- Thomas Hardyng (Harding)
- William Hardyng (Harding).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1389-? 1391, with reference to the bishop of Winchester being chancellor.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334276/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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