Piece
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Bishop of . . . King and council. Bishop of . . . [The petition has been badly damaged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/266/13291
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This record is about the Bishop of . . . King and council. Bishop of . . . [The petition has been badly damaged... dating from [? c. 1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/266/13291
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bishop of . . .
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of . . .
- Nature of request
- [The petition has been badly damaged and is missing a considerable portion of the right-hand side. The petition refers to liberties presumably of the bishop, to a robbery, to the levying of a sum for Ellis part of which was raised on the bishop's people of an unnamed hundred, but the request is not clear].
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ containing the petition be directed to le Scrope.
- People mentioned
- Ellis . . .
- Geoffrey le Scrope.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to? c. 1324 on the basis of the hand and the suggested dating given in the guard note.
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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/C9517238/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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