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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Westminster. Council. The people of Westminster, who have no possessions...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/259/12932
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This record is about the People of Westminster. Council. The people of Westminster, who have no possessions... dating from [1307-1327] 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 8/259/12932
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307-1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Westminster.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Westminster, who have no possessions except their houses and rents in Westminster from which to live, and who have the ancient custom of lodging the King's officials, state that the King's officials are now occupying their houses and other buildings to such an extent that they are driving out their tenants, so that they are deprived of their rents; and they also wrongly occupy the taverns. They request a remedy, so that these liveries might be dealt with as they were in the time of the King's father, and in the time when Peter de Chavent was his Steward.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.The Steward and Marshal are to be ordered to have the ancient liveries practised and not new ones, in accordance with the ancient custom, and as was ordained in the time of the late King Edward.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Peter de Chavent (Champvent), steward of Edward I
- Edward [I], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to the reign of Edward II by the hand, the Latin endorsement and the reference to Peter de Chavent, Steward 1290-c. 1292, and probably from earlier rather than later in the reign.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/263/13137
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440545/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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