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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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People of the Isles. King and council. The people request that the king will take...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/327/E822
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This record is about the People of the Isles. King and council. The people request that the king will take... dating from [c. 1328] 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 8/327/E822
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the Isles.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request that the king will take pity on them for the great damage that they suffered in the time of the war and that they can have the usages and customs that they had in the time of the king's father, and that all the bad customs levied in the time of Grandisson and his bailiffs may be removed as they can scarcely live because of them. They have been unable to have remedy for the past 20 years because they only had judges of whom they complained and who were ministers of Grandisson.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- [Channel Islands].
- People mentioned
- Otho [de Grandisson, warden].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1328 as it is clear that the petition dates to the time after Otho de Grandison was keeper of the Channel Islands, his term ending in that year (Societe Jersiaise, Bulletin, vol.II, pp. 41-2).
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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)
- Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.60 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682817/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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