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Community of Dorset. Council; King and council. This petition is in three parts,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/256/12792A
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This record is about the Community of Dorset. Council; King and council. This petition is in three parts,... dating from [1339] 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 8/256/12792A
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1339]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Community of Dorset.
- Addressees
- Council; King and council.
- Nature of request
- This petition is in three parts, from various sections of the community of Dorset:1) The community of Dorset ask the council that Richard Lovel, Roger Chandos and William Everard might be associated with Robert Fitz Payn in the guard of the sea, as the most suitable men in their counties. And as the weakness of Dorset does not allow it to make a sufficient guard, they ask that the people of Somerset might aid them, as has been done before in similar case.2) The people of the vills and hamlets of Swanage, Langton, Studland, Whitecliff, Holwell, Godlyngston, Herston, Lazerton, Acton, and Moulham, and of other hamlets in Purbeck in Dorset state that all their goods and chattels are burnt and destroyed, and that they have nothing left to live on, although they are charged as much for the fifteenth and for wools as before. They ask the King and council that they might be discharged.3) The people of Blackmoor in Dorset state that the King's progenitors, by their charters, deforested all the woods of Blackmoor except the King's demesne lands in Blackmoor, but that the Wardens of the Forest south of the Trent and their ministers have ordered the Sheriff of Dorset to take the woods back into the King's hand and to return them to the forest. They request a remedy and that their charter might be allowed to them.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Swanage, Dorset
- Langton, Dorset
- Studland, Dorset
- Whitecliff, Dorset
- Holwell, Dorset
- Godlyngston, Dorset
- Herston, Dorset
- Lazerton, Dorset
- Taketon (Acton), Dorset
- Moulham, Dorset
- Purbeck, Dorset
- Somerset
- Blackmoor, Dorset.
- People mentioned
- Richard Lovel
- Roger Chandos
- William Everard
- Robert Fitz Payn (Fitz Pain).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1339-41 p.74 is dated 24 April 1339, and would seem to be in response to this petition. There is also a mention of Robert Fitz Payn and Richard Lovel in connection with the sea defences of Portland in CCR 1339-41 p.12, dated 10 February 1339. William Everard and Robert Fitz Payn are mentioned as commissioners of array and of the peace in CPR 1338-40 p.481, dated 28 January 1340.
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.74 (order to discharge the men of Studland, Whitecliff, Swanage and Herston of a certain amount of wool, in consideration of damage to their towns)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440399/
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