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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Pusant, clerk. Pusant John King and council. clerk Pusant requests remedy because...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13235
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/265/13235
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1299]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Pusant, clerk.
- Name(s)
- Pusant, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- Pusant requests remedy because his land and rent were taken into the King's hand because he was at school in the city of Turin, as twelve good men of the parish of St Sampson's will testify, by which he should not have been disseised.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the justice of the island testified that it was proclaimed at the King's order that those who remain on the island should remain assessed there, under forfeiture of lands and tenements etc. to defend the island etc., and the petitioner did not remain their to assist the island, his lands and tenements etc. were seized into the King's hand. 2) Otto will counsel the King before the next parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Turin, [Italy]
- St Sampson's parish, [Guernsey, Channel Islands].
- People mentioned
- Otto [de Grandison].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The format and hand of the endorsement is similar to other Channel Islands petitions in this file from 1299, and probably relates to the Channel Islands eyre of 1299-1300 (see Crook, Records of the General Eyre, pp.191-2).
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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/C9517182/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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