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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Tenants of the queen in the honour of Knaresborough. King. The tenants and the people...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/244/12185
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This record is about the Tenants of the queen in the honour of Knaresborough. King. The tenants and the people... dating from [1348] 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 8/244/12185
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tenants of the queen in the honour of Knaresborough.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The tenants and the people of the surrounding countryside request an inquisition to Haukeston and the sheriff to enquire of the wrongs of Thedmersh who took hay, oats and litter from them for the king's horses without payment, and of other excesses. They also request that Thedmersh's executors are not pardoned until the matter has been examined and satisfaction has been made to the king and them.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Knaresborough honour, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Hay Park, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Haverah Park, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Bilton Park, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Edmund de Thedmersh, late keeper of the king's geldings
- Thomas de Hankeston
- Sheriff of York.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1348 as a commission was issued into the matter on 23 April 1348, though, strangely the letter of the secret seal with which the petition was enclosed is dated to 19 May presumably in the same year (CPR 1348-50, p.83; C 81/1331/19).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the letters of the secret seal with which this petition was originally enclosed see no. 19 in C 81/1331
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.83 (commission into the wrong-doings of Thedmersh) & p.213 (pardon the executors of Thedmersh relating to his account)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439790/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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