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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Polegroyn. Polegroyn John King. Polegroyn requests the grant of the bailiwick...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E211
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This record is about the John Polegroyn. Polegroyn John King. Polegroyn requests the grant of the bailiwick... 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 8/316/E211
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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
- John Polegroyn.
- Name(s)
- Polegroyn, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Polegroyn requests the grant of the bailiwick of Dartmoor for his life as it was held in the times of the earl for the imprisonment and maiming and other great losses that he has suffered in the king's service, this he asks for reward as the letters that he had before these hours to abbots and priors are of no value.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king has granted and wills that it be done if it can be, and upon this he should await the presence of the treasurer.The treasurer answered him that he should come to the Exchequer in the feast of St Michael and there will be the bailiffs of Cornwall and Devon and it will be enquired of them of the value, condition and other circumstances relating to the bailiwick and he will be answered:
- Places mentioned
- Dartmoor, [Devon].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
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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)
- 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529263/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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