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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
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Simon Bygod (Bigod) of Whitton. Bygod (Bigod) Simon King and council. Bygod requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E766
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This record is about the Simon Bygod (Bigod) of Whitton. Bygod (Bigod) Simon King and council. Bygod requests... dating from [c 1290] 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/E766
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c 1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Simon Bygod (Bigod) of Whitton.
- Name(s)
- Bygod (Bigod), Simon
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Bygod requests remedy as he is charged by Bevercotes beyond measures in each assize and in each inquest of the hundred of Manley outside of the county [...] and summoned in three inquisitions in fifteen days, namely before the king where he is, before the barons of the Exchequer, and in the Bench, and this he does to all poor people like Bigod, but not to rich men.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Whitton, Lincolnshire
- Lincolnshire
- Manley hundred (Manley wapentake), [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- William de Bevercotes, bailiff in the West Riding in Lincolnshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1290 on the basis of the dating of another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter (SC 8/346/E1360).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition probably by the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/326/E754
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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/C9682761/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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