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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty of the Seven Hundreds of Windsor. King and Council. The commonalty of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/218/10865
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This record is about the Commonalty of the Seven Hundreds of Windsor. King and Council. The commonalty of... dating from [? c. 1307] 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 8/218/10865
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of the Seven Hundreds of Windsor.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty of the seven hundreds of Windsor state that whereas the expenses payable to the knights of the shire for Berkshire were accustomed to be paid by all holders of knights' fees, the bishops and great lords have now purchased writs exempting them and their peasants from such payments, leaving them to pay the entire charge. They therefore request remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Order the sheriff to levy the sums from the free tenants of his bailiwick and others who are accustomed to pay, except the prelates, earls and barons summoned to parliament by the king's mandate and their villains, concerning which the sheriff has received a writ, such that those of the seven hundreds should not be unduly oppressed.[This endorsement appears to replace an earlier duplicate version, which was corrected and finally crossed through.]
- Places mentioned
- Windsor, [Berkshire]
- Berkshire
- Cookham, [Berkshire]
- Bray, [Berkshire]
- Wargrave hundred, [Berkshire]
- Sonning hundred, [Berkshire].
- People mentioned
- Sheriff of Berkshire
- Queen of England
- Bishop of Winchester
- Bishop of Salisbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1307. The reference to the king's late father, coupled with the handwriting and Latin endorsement, would suggest a date in the reign of Edward II, and probably the early part of that reign.
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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/C9334423/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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