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Peter Corbet. Corbet Peter King. Corbet requests that the king write to the chancellor...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/246/12269

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Reference
SC 8/246/12269
Date
[1350]
Description
Petitioners
Peter Corbet.
Name(s)
Corbet, Peter
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Corbet requests that the king write to the chancellor to allow his charter of exemption of being put on juries, inquests and serving as sheriff as he has been chosen to be sheriff of Gloucestershire against the form of his charter.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Note
The petition is dated to 1350 on the basis of the date '24 Edw. 3' stamped on the guard of the warrant, the warrant bearing the date 8 December (C 81/1333/32).
Related material

For the secret seal warrant with which this document was originally enclosed see no. 31 in C 81/1333

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, N. Saul, (Clarendon Press, 1981), p.151 (discussion of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439875/

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