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Hospital of St Leonard, York. King. It is requested that the king will clarify their...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/313/E75

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This record is about the Hospital of St Leonard, York. King. It is requested that the king will clarify their... dating from [1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/313/E75
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Hospital of St Leonard, York.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
It is requested that the king will clarify their rights as they were granted by charter by the king's predecessors that all manner of pleas concerning them being both crown and other be heard and determined by justices within their fee but no express mention is made of pleas of arrest for homicide.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let it remain.2) Coram rege.3) The king will grant no other form than what they previously had.
Places mentioned
[York].
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 because it is clear that this petition was cut from a longer roll of petitions from the same petitioner, and another of these petitions survives as SC 8/313/E74 and that is now identified as coming from the summer parliament of 1302 (PROME, Roll 12, Introduction, and Text/Translation).
Related material

For another petition cut from the same roll of requests by the same petitioners, see SC 8/313/E74

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529126/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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