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? No Petitioner named Memorandum that a writ was sent to the Keepers of the Peace...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/297/14842

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Memorandum that a writ was sent to the Keepers of the Peace... dating from [1362-1369] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/297/14842
Date
[1362-1369]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Memorandum that a writ was sent to the Keepers of the Peace in Oxfordshire and Berkshire and to the sheriff of these counties to go to Abingdon, summon the community, and receive a security from them not to harm or molest the Abbot and monks of Abingdon, or their men or servants, and to arrest and imprison all those who refuse to give such a security; and that as a result of this, the Keepers of the Peace in Berkshire and others did this on the Wednesday after Michaelmas last, and list the names of those who gave security, and the names of those who refused to do so.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
Abingdon, [Berkshire].
People mentioned
Community of Abingdon
Abbot and monks of Abingdon
Edward de Chelerey, Keeper of the Peace in Berkshire
John de Esbery, Keeper of the Peace in Berkshire
Walter Bryan
Thomas Romesy
Richard Deyghe
Alan Smyth (Smith)
John Lyford
John Bathe (Bath)
John Colnham
Eustace Yonge
William Cholseye
Thomas Thame, senior
Richard Bate
Walter Oxeburgh
John Ledecoumbe
John Aleyn
Richard Ferour
Robert Chaloner
Robert Glench
John Hampton
Thomas Hasele
Henry Tannere (Tanner)
Thomas Hakeborne
Roger de Cotesford, sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
Note
Roger de Cotesford was sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire between 20 November 1362 and 15 July 1365, and between 27 November 1368 and 5 November 1369. As those who refused to pay the security were given into his custody, this petition must date from one of these two periods.
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/297/14843

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518044/

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