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People of Weedon Bec. King and council. The people of Wedon request remedy as the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/323/E587
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This record is about the People of Weedon Bec. King and council. The people of Wedon request remedy as the... dating from [1299-1303] 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 8/323/E587
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1299-1303]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Weedon Bec.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Wedon request remedy as the prior of Ogbourne claims them as his neifs and demands against them villein customs and services and to make them do this he distrains them from day to day, and upon which they have brought a writ to prove their franchise and the sheriff of Northamptonshire has been ordered that he give them a day until the next eyre and in the meantime they be at peace, but despite this the prior has put them out of their land and tenements and carried away their goods in contempt of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- If they are free they should proceed by writ of disseisin.
- Places mentioned
- Weedon Bec, [Northamptonshire]
- Ogbourne St George, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Prior of Ogbourne.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1299-1303 as the matter was very current between these years with many commissions of oyer and terminer being issued on complaints by individual people of Weedon against the actions of the abbot of Bec, prior of Ogbourne and their bailiff (CPR 1292-1301, pp.462-6; CPR 1301-7, p.194).
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.462-6 (several commissions of oyer and terminer issued on complaint by individual people of Weedon against the abbot of Bec and the prior of Ogbourne)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.194 (further commissions of oyer and terminer against the abbot and prior, and their bailiff)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529639/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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