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? No Petitioner named Writ of the King to the Sheriff of Suffolk, in response to...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/234/11694

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of the King to the Sheriff of Suffolk, in response to... dating from 1326 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/234/11694
Date
1326
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of the King to the Sheriff of Suffolk, in response to a petition from the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds asking that all his liberties in respect of being free from the interference of justices or other ministers of the King in Bury St Edmunds might be set down and granted to him specifically, asking him to assemble a jury for an inquisition into whether the Abbot had held these liberties, and whether it would be to the harm of the King or anyone else, or would lessen the farm of the county to grant them to him.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Leicester, [Leicestershire].
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
[Giles de Wachesham], Sheriff of Suffolk
Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
John de Mutford
John de Whelnetham
John Claver.
Note
Writ dated 6 March, 19 Edward II (1326).
Related material

For a writ to the Chief Justice of Common Pleas asking for evidence on this matter, see SC 8/234/11696

For evidence produced as a result of this writ, see SC 8/234/11697

For the petition on which all these documents depend, see SC 8/234/11700

For the inquisition held as a result of this writ, see SC 8/234/11693

For letters patent to the justices ordering the holding of this inquisition, see SC 8/234/11695

For a writ asking for evidence of various liberties allowed to the Abbot in the Exchequer, see SC 8/234/11698

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335253/

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