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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot of Leicester. King and Council. Abbot of Leicester The Abbot of Leicester requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/310/15482
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This record is about the Abbot of Leicester. King and Council. Abbot of Leicester The Abbot of Leicester requests... dating from [1318] 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 8/310/15482
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Leicester.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Leicester
- Nature of request
- The Abbot of Leicester requests remedy against the Earl Marshal and the King's Chamberlain, who have made demands upon his house contrary to the provisions made by the king's father in the second Statute of Westminster.
- Nature of endorsement
- Order the Marshal and the Chamberlain that nothing is to be levied from the abbot except as is contained in the second Statute of Westminster.
- Places mentioned
- Leicester, [Leicestershire]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- [Thomas of Brotherton], Earl Marshal
- King's Chamberlain
- [Edward I, King of England].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A summary of this petition, and a response identical to that noted here, appears on the roll of the parliament of October 1318.
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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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- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.14 (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
- 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), Parliament of October 1318, no.69 (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682492/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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