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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Isaac the Jew. Jew Isaac King. Isaac the Jew requests that he be released from prison...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/218/10892
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/218/10892
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1279]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Isaac the Jew.
- Name(s)
- Jew, Isaac
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Isaac the Jew requests that he be released from prison in Bristol, where he has been wrongly held on attachment of Henry de Winchester.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to remain in prison.
- Places mentioned
- Bristol.
- People mentioned
- Constable of Bristol
- Henry de Winchester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1278-9, with reference to CCR 1272-9, p.517 and CPR 1272-81, p.320, both of which appear to relate to the same events. The following two petition in this file can also be dated to this period, while this petition also clearly dates to before the expulsion of the Jews in 1290.
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1279, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.517 (order to the constable of Bristol Castle to send all silver plates found in the possession of Henry de Winchester to be sent to London)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.320 (writ of aid to Henry de Wynton, who has bought the goods of Jews hanged for trespass of the coinage and is about to dispose of them)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334450/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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