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John du Viver (Vivier). Viver (Vivier) John King and council. Viver requests remedy,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13244
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This record is about the John du Viver (Vivier). Viver (Vivier) John King and council. Viver requests remedy,... dating from [c. 1299] 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 8/265/13244
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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 du Viver (Vivier).
- Name(s)
- Viver (Vivier), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Viver requests remedy, stating that he was one of the men of Guernsey to propose to the Prior of Wenlock and his bailiffs that they should not be justices itinerant because they have been bailiffs since the last assize, after the prior made him governor in the castle and the petitioner would not pledge to amend the trespass if it were made by judgment according to the custom of the country, the same prior distrained the petitioner and his pledges, imprisoned him and demanded £30 of him.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The Prior of Wenlock did not come, and Lesset together with the prior, it was recorded that the petitioner complained at another time at the age of fourteen years regarding a trespass against a certain minister of the king [...], and the trespass was heard before the justices [...] and he was committed to prison and fined £30.2) Therefore before the king, etc. He is to be remitted £15, by the grace of Lord Otto.
- Places mentioned
- Wenlock (Much Wenlock), [Shropshire].
- People mentioned
- [Henry de Bonvillars], Prior of Wenlock
- Robert de Lesset, justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1299, with reference to CPR 1292-1301, p. 433, a 1299 oyer and terminer to the prior of Wenlock and others concerning lands in the Channel Islands. The reference to the Prior of Wenlock suggests that the petition probably relates to the Channel Islands eyre of 1299-1300 (see Crook, Records of the General Eyre, pp.191-2).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/265/13249
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.433 (oyer and terminer to Prior of Wenlock and others concerning lands in the Channel Islands)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517191/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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