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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the ancient demesnes of Stoneleigh in Arden. King. The people complain...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/269/13404
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/269/13404
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the ancient demesnes of Stoneleigh in Arden.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The people complain that they have been deprived of their reasonable estovers and commons in their woods by the destruction and assarting made by the abbot of Stoneleigh, who has made assarts and given them to men who can harm them and sold other land to the Templars, and without the king's aid in the defence of their commons they will have to leave their land.[There is a copy of a writ of King Henry III sewn to the petition ordering that the men of Stoneleigh enjoy their common rights].
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Stanle in Arderne (Stoneleigh), [Warwickshire]
- Coventry, [Warwickshire]
- Allesley, [Warwickshire]
- Berkswell, [Warwickshire]
- Kenilworth, [Warwickshire]
- Stivichall, [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Stoneleigh
- Templars.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1290 as the petition is ascribed this date in the edition of the parliament rolls (PROME, roll 02, appendix, no. 13).
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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. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.46b (no.12) (Latin summary possibly of this petition but with a fuller response)
- 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 02, appendix, no.13 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517351/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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