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Gylot Tongart of the Isle of Jersey. Tongart Gylot King. Tongart requests that he...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/272/13556
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This record is about the Gylot Tongart of the Isle of Jersey. Tongart Gylot King. Tongart requests that he... dating from [1305] 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 8/272/13556
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Gylot Tongart of the Isle of Jersey.
- Name(s)
- Tongart, Gylot
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Tongart requests that he be granted peace and the king's charter as he broke open a chest in a castle of the Isle and stole a sword and leather gloves, and was caught with them and was put in custody in the house of Petit from which he escaped to the church and abjured the land.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The petitioner cannot be helped in Chancery as he seeks a pardon of the king for an abjuration made for theft, therefore coram rege.2) The bailiffs of the Isle are to be commanded to inform the king of the manner and cause of the abjuration.3) Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Jersey, [Channel Islands]
- St Helier, [Jersey, Channel Islands].
- People mentioned
- William le Petit of St Helier.
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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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- Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.26 (calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.54 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- 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), Lent 1305 Channel Islands membrane, appendix, no.18 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517503/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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