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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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Brothers of the hospital of St John outside the east gate of Oxford. King. The brothers...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/329/E933
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This record is about the Brothers of the hospital of St John outside the east gate of Oxford. King. The brothers... dating from [c. 1305-c. 1325] 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 8/329/E933
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1305-c. 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Brothers of the hospital of St John outside the east gate of Oxford.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The brothers request that they are able to receive houses and rents that men of Oxford wish to devise in the town of Oxford for the love of God and the advancement of the house because the burgesses of the town are able to devise houses and rents as their chattels according to the usage of London. They also request that they are able to appropriate from their fee where it is held in chief from them.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) They should come to Chancery and show what they have of the writ of inquisition.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1305-c. 1325 on the basis of the hand. The more substantial response is also in Latin, which seems to have been replaced by Anglo-Norman French by around 1322.
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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)
- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.141 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682928/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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