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None specified. Council. It is requested that the Bench at Westminster, which is...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/321/E494

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This record is about the None specified. Council. It is requested that the Bench at Westminster, which is... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1325] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/321/E494
Date
[c. 1300-c. 1325]
Description
Petitioners
None specified.
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
It is requested that the Bench at Westminster, which is the common place of the realm where all the great things and commons that concerning the great and lesser people of the realm are judged, not be allowed to go without the aid of the wise, namely knights who have resided in the place before, as without them judgement will be delayed in disinheritance and damage of the people and the realm.
Nature of endorsement
The king does not wish anything to change.
Places mentioned
Westminster.
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1300-c. 1325 on the basis of the hand.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), p.cxvii-cxviii (entry b)(edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529546/

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