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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Spersholte (Spersholt), sheriff of Oxfordshire and keeper of Oxford castle....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/266/13277
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This record is about the William de Spersholte (Spersholt), sheriff of Oxfordshire and keeper of Oxford castle.... dating from [1334] 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 8/266/13277
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Spersholte (Spersholt), sheriff of Oxfordshire and keeper of Oxford castle.
- Name(s)
- de Spersholte (Spersholt), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- sheriff of Oxfordshire and keeper of Oxford castle
- Nature of request
- Spersholte requests a suitable remedy so that clerks are only received if they by common and notorious malefactors and disturbers of the king's peace and that of the University, as the chancellor of the university has caused many clerks to be delivered to him for imprisonment at great cost to him in the prison of Oxford within the castle.
- Nature of endorsement
- This is not a petition of parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Oxfordshire
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1334 as the petition was amongst those transcribed by Hale and ascribed a date of 1334 [8 Edw. III] (Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp.76b-77a (no.18)).
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.76b-77a (no.18) (full edition of later copy of original 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.73-89, no.18 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517224/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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