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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 the realm. King and council. The people complain of the great damage and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E216
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This record is about the People of the realm. King and council. The people complain of the great damage and... 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/E216
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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 the realm.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people complain of the great damage and destruction done to them by sheriffs who have indicted at their tourn in the hundreds people who they have ill will to or from whom they covet their lands and chattels, and they have them imprisoned and extort money from them for delivery. They complain in particular of the sheriff of Shropshire.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is attested before the council by the barons of the Exchequer that the sheriff is elected from all the county, and if they feel themselves injured they should come to the Exchequer and justice will be done to them.
- People mentioned
- Sheriff of Shropshire
- William Inge
- Roger de Suthcote.
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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)
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- 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)
- Three Early Petitions of the Commonalty, G.L. Haskins, (Speculum, XII, pp. 314-318, 1937), p.316 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529268/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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