Piece
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
People of the Forest of Windsor. King and council. [The petition is badly damaged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E730
What’s it about?
This record is about the People of the Forest of Windsor. King and council. [The petition is badly damaged... dating from [c. 1280-c. 1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/326/E730
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1280-c. 1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the Forest of Windsor.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged with a substantial part of the right-hand side of the petition being illegible].The people complain of damage and destruction in the forest of Windsor so that the vert and venison is destroyed.[The petition refers to various individuals and to purprestures].
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the petition be delivered to the treasurer that he should hear this petition quickly, and he should make those named in the petition come before him, and refer what he finds in this matter to the king and council.
- Places mentioned
- Windsor, [Berkshire].
- People mentioned
- [...] de Shorteford
- William de Shorteford
- William de Eton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1280-c. 1305 on the basis of the hand.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682725/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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