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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert, prior of St Oswald, Gloucester. Robert Council. prior of St Oswald, Gloucester...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/323/E569
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/323/E569
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1314]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert, prior of St Oswald, Gloucester.
- Name(s)
- Robert
- Addressees
- Council.
- Occupation
- prior of St Oswald, Gloucester
- Nature of request
- The prior requests remedy as Darcy, Anesle and Brokworth without warrant and by colour of their office took various livestock from the prior's manors of Parton and Tulwell and sold them and had their will.
- Nature of endorsement
- Walter Torald recovered £50 before T. de Berkeley and his associate justices for trespass.
- Places mentioned
- Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
- Parton, [Gloucestershire]
- Tollewell (Tulwell), [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- Robert Darcy, sheriff of Gloucestershire
- John de Anesle, sub-sheriff of Gloucestershire
- Thomas de Brokworth (Brockworth), clerk of the sheriff
- Walter Toraud (Torald)
- T. de Berk (Berkeley).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1314 as it refers to events in early September 1314 and the complaint is made against Robert Darcy as sheriff of Gloucestershire, and he held office from 2 April 1313-16 November 1314 (List of Sheriffs, p.49).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the prior and convent on the matter behind the seizure of the livestock, see SC 8/323/E563
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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)
- Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.762 (discussion of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529621/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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