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? No Petitioner named [The writ is badly damaged with a substantial portion of the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/322/E526

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [The writ is badly damaged with a substantial portion of the... dating from [1307] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/322/E526
Date
[1307]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
[The writ is badly damaged with a substantial portion of the right-hand side of the writ being missing].Writ of Langton to the sheriff of Northamptonshire concerning the plea between Bigod and Ferrers, and the maintenance of Bigod's cause.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bugbrooke, [Northamptonshire]
Carlisle, [Cumberland].
People mentioned
Walter [de Langton], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
Sheriff of Northamptonshire
Ralph Bygot (Bigod)
John de Ferers (Ferrers).
Note
The writ and its fellows formerly enclosed with the petition - SC 8/322/E528 - date to 1307 with that petition. All of the writs are dated at Carlisle in March, and must have been issued following the January parliament held at Carlisle in that year, and before the death of King Edward I at Burgh-by-Sands close by on 7 July 1307.
Related material

For the petition to with which this writ was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/322/E528

For another writ of the bishop on the same matter, see SC 8/322/E527

For another related writ formerly enclosed with this, see SC 8/322/E525

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529578/

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