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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of Westminster. King and council. The abbot and convent request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/324/E638
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Westminster. King and council. The abbot and convent request... dating from [c. 1302] 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 8/324/E638
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Westminster.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The abbot and convent request that they have sufficient exchange for any manors that they are ousted from by action of plea, which manors were assigned to them by the king for an anniversary for Queen Eleanor.
- Nature of endorsement
- Nothing is to be done concerning this petition.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Eleanor [of Castile, Queen of England].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Identified as 'probably belongs to 1302' in PROME, Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.47. This may be associated with a commission of oyer and terminer relating to one of the manors granted to the abbot and convent of Westminster (CPR 1301-7, p. 82).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioners on a related matter, see SC 8/278/13889
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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. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.82 (association of justices in a commission of oyer and terminer concerning those who entered one of the assigned manors and consumed all the abbots goods there)
- 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.47 (reference to this petition with another petition from the same petitioners on a related matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682632/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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