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Community of Cumberland. King and council. The community of Cumberland requests that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13200
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This record is about the Community of Cumberland. King and council. The community of Cumberland requests that... dating from [1305] 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 8/265/13200
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Community of Cumberland.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The community of Cumberland requests that whereas the King by his charter granted that the forest of Inglewood be held according to its perambulation, and issued writs, one to Clifford and one to the sheriff of Cumberland, to uphold the charter and put the men of the country in seisin according to the charter, and because Clifford was not in the land, the men were put in seisin by the sheriff, and Clifford, upon his arrival, because they had not entered through him, had several men from the said community attached and does them other grievances, that Clifford cease from committing such grievances.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the King.2) The King wishes that the charter of the perambulation of the forest be upheld, and that those indicted in this way be in the King's grace when it pleases him to speak his will.
- Places mentioned
- Cumberland
- Inglewood, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Clifford, justice of Inglewood forest
- sheriff of Cumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1305, with reference to Memoranda de Parliamento, p.9, no.6.
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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)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.9 (no.6) (edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.159b-160a (no.5) (Latin summary of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix no.6 (edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517147/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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