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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Earls and barons and other tenants of the seven hundreds of Cirencester. King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/325/E695
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This record is about the Earls and barons and other tenants of the seven hundreds of Cirencester. King and... dating from [c. 1287] 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 8/325/E695
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1287]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Earls and barons and other tenants of the seven hundreds of Cirencester.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The earls and barons and other tenants of the seven hundreds of Cirencester complain that they have always been answerable at the king's court of the hundred of Cirencester which is held by the abbot of Cirencester from the king at fee farm, and that they make no suit to the county court nor contribute to fines made there by the commonalty of the county, but the treasurer has attempted to levy the fourth part of the fine made by the geldable people of the county before Saham and his companions without judgement. They have received a respite until the next parliament, but now request remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be sent to the treasurer and let him call the justices of both Benches, and according to their council let justice be done, etc.
- Places mentioned
- Cirencester, [Gloucestershire]
- Gloucestershire.
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Cirencester
- William de Saham, justice in eyre in Gloucestershire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1287 as Saham was assigned with other justices to be a justice in eyre in Gloucestershire in that year (CPR 1281-92, pp. 288-9).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another contemporary petition on the same matter, see SC 8/325/E694
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp.268-9 (writ de intendendo for Saham and other justices assigned to go on eyre in Gloucestershire, and related association)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682689/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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