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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
Item
? No Petitioner named King [or king and council]. [This petition is very badly faded,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/291/14510
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named King [or king and council]. [This petition is very badly faded,... dating from [? c. 1300] 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 8/291/14510
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1300]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Addressees
- King [or king and council].
- Nature of request
- [This petition is very badly faded, and only a few words can be deciphered. A certain quantity of wheat is mentioned, and there is mention of 'the first year' and 'two years'.]
- Nature of endorsement
- Pledge to sue: Richard le Counte.He cannot deny that those who at the time of the war lived in Paris, shortly before the war demised to him the aforesaid rent of wheat for a term of four years, because of which the wheat of that rent was seized etc.
- Places mentioned
- Paris, [France].
- People mentioned
- Richard le Counte.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From the hand and language of the endorsement, the war mentioned here is probably the war of 1294-1298. This petition probably dates from shortly afterwards.
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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/C9735672/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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