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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Dawnce. Dawnce John King and council. Dawnce requests that whereas on 1 December...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13149
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/263/13149
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1477]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Dawnce.
- Name(s)
- Dawnce, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Dawnce requests that whereas on 1 December in the seventeenth year of the King's reign [1477] Dormer urged Tanner to gather with sixteen other armed men and, at Dormer's request, they riotously entered the petitioner's house in New Thame, telling his servants they were the King's cart takers, and beat and wounded the petitioner and would have imprisoned him so that he dares not remain in his house for fear of death, that the King grant writs directed to Dormer ordering him to appear before the King and council on a certain day to answer in this matter.
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the King and council in the octave of St Hilary next.
- Places mentioned
- Old Thame, [Oxfordshire]
- New Thame, Oxfordshire.
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey Dormer of Old Thame, yeoman
- Thomas Tanner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1477 and later, since the petition refers to events of 1 December in the seventeenth year [probably of Edward IV].
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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)
- English
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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/C9517095/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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