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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Salmon, Bishop of Norwich. Salmon John King and council. Bishop of Norwich The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/257/12817
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This record is about the John Salmon, Bishop of Norwich. Salmon John King and council. Bishop of Norwich The... dating from [c. 1315] 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 8/257/12817
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Salmon, Bishop of Norwich.
- Name(s)
- Salmon, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Norwich
- Nature of request
- The Bishop of Norwich requests a prison, with all that belongs to a prison, in his town of Lynn, as there is currently no prison nearer than Norwich castle and the people of Lynn cannot be impleaded in any plea of land or of the crown outside their town.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face, deleted] The Sheriff and the people of the town are to be heard etc. And he is to sue a writ that they are to come to the next parliament if he wishes etc.[On dorse] The Sheriff is to be ordered to appear in person before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer fifteen days after Easter, and that he is to have come on the same day six of the better and more upright burgesses of the town of Lynn to show for the King and themselves anything they can say or show concerning whether the King can grant what is asked without harm to himself or not.
- Places mentioned
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
- Norwich, [Norfolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CChR 1300-26 p.284 is dated 30 August 1315 and would seem to be the eventual outcome of this petition and of SC 8/234/11692.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition, see SC 8/234/11692
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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 Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.284 (grant of a prison and return of writs to the bishop)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440429/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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