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Otho de Grandissono (Grandison), knight. de Grandissono (Grandison) Otho King. Grandison...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/272/13573

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Reference
SC 8/272/13573
Date
[1313]
Description
Petitioners
Otho de Grandissono (Grandison), knight.
Name(s)
de Grandissono (Grandison), Otho
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Grandison requests that for the observance of right and of the royal mandate and so that the laws and customs of Guernsey can be kept that the jurats of the island be compelled declare or produce in writing these laws and customs as those of Jersey have, as without this he and his ministers will be unable to keep them. Grandison refers to complaints made that he and his ministers had broken these laws and customs and to the order by writ of the king to keep the laws and customs.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Jersey, [Channel Islands]
Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
Note
The petition is dated to 1313 as it must be close in date to the writ with which it was enclosed (SC 8/272/13572).
Related material

For the writ that was formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/272/13572

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.22-23 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517520/

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