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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales. Woodstock, Prince of Wales Edward King. Woodstock...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/244/12163
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This record is about the Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales. Woodstock, Prince of Wales Edward King. Woodstock... dating from [1347] 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 8/244/12163
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1347]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales.
- Name(s)
- Woodstock, Prince of Wales, Edward
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Woodstock requests that Venables be delivered to him so that he can be sent to Cheshire and there justice can be done to him according to the laws and customs of those parts since felonies committed in the county can only be tried there. Venables is imprisoned in Newgate by collusion.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Cheshire
- Newgate prison, [London].
- People mentioned
- Richard Venables of Cheshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1347 in accordance with the date '21 Edw. 3.' stamped on the guard of both the petition and the warrant. Richard Venables was pardoned on 8 February 1348 (Tout, vol. V, p.419, n.6).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the secret seal warrant with which this document was originally enclosed see no. 35 in C 81/1332
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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)
- Chapters in the Administrative History of Mediaeval England, vol. V, T.F. Tout, (Manchester University Press, 1937), p.419, n.6 (brief discussion of petition in context of diplomatic of Black Prince's letters, with additional references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439768/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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