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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Cirencester. King. The people request remedy since during a plea between...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/313/E98
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This record is about the People of Cirencester. King. The people request remedy since during a plea between... dating from [? 1302] 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 8/313/E98
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Cirencester.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The people request remedy since during a plea between them and the abbot on a writ of trespass the abbot has maintained armed evildoers in the town that persecute, wound and despoil the goods of those involved in the plea, and have killed their attorney and two of his servants, and the evildoers have been indicted but nothing is done concerning their attachment as the abbot has the liberty of the seven hundreds and return of shrieval writs.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- They should sue before the justices assigned for the trespasses . . ., and if anything new is attempted they should sue by the common law.2) Let it remain.
- Places mentioned
- Cirencester, [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Cirencester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? 1302 as the majority of petitions in this file probably date to this year.
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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)
- Cirencester Documents, E.A. Fuller, (Selden Society, vol. X, ), pp.114-115 (translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529149/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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