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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named The writer addresses the honourable and wise men [? Council]...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/233/11617
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named The writer addresses the honourable and wise men [? Council]... dating from [? 1324] 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 8/233/11617
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- The writer addresses the honourable and wise men [? Council] and states he has received the king's writ on 11 March to bring the men-at-arms and foot soldiers to Portsmouth, and he has summoned other men of Dowers and of de la Pole, finding them sufficiently obedient, except de la Pole's men and he requests a remedy so that he be made to come. He states that because of the neglect of Wales he doubts that they will be so obedient in the future.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Wales
- Portsmouth, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- [Commissioner of Array]
- Griffyn de la Pole.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The letter is dated to? 1324-? 1325 as the letter seems likely to be related to commissions of array issued in late December 1324 (CPR 1324-7::pp.78-9, 97)
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.385-386 (calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), pp.78-9, 97 (commissions of array)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335176/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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