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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Arrayers of Foot soldiers in Kent for the Scottish war. Council. [Petition in seven...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E759
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This record is about the Arrayers of Foot soldiers in Kent for the Scottish war. Council. [Petition in seven... dating from [1312] 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 8/326/E759
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1312]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Arrayers of Foot soldiers in Kent for the Scottish war.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in seven parts].1) Three or four men are chosen from each vill but the people are often too poor to pay for even one.2) The people of little vills near Sandwich are not able to meet their obligation as their crops are sewn and the poor people who reside there are not able to suffer without them how their portion is able to be levied to serve the king.3) They will be weakened by the arraying of men as those of the Isle of Thanet and other vills by the sea that are often robbed by foreign people - Flemings and Normans.4) It is not expressed who should pay the wages and provide the armour for those who are not of any great lordship.5) It is not expressed how the king wishes that justices should be done to those who wish to ? go/desert.6) They request how and from whom they should have their expenses in the election as they understand that the king does not wish them to use their own money.7) They request that the king will give them his letters that this will not be taken as a precedent before they do this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Kent
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- Isle of Thanet, [Kent].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1312 as a commission of array was issued for Kent and Sussex on 22 August 1312 (CPR 1307-13, p. 487).
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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 II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.487 (commission of array for Kent and Sussex)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682754/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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