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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Kent. King and council. The commons of Kent state that it was previously...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/294/14677
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This record is about the Commons of Kent. King and council. The commons of Kent state that it was previously... dating from [? c. 1320-? c. 1345] 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 8/294/14677
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1320-? c. 1345]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Kent.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commons of Kent state that it was previously ordained for the profit of the commons of England that no plea would be held at the gate of any castle except of people holding of the 'garnesture' of the castle touching the said 'garnesture'; but now the ministers of castles, both the king's and those belonging to other great men, in various places in the said county make people, who do not owe suit, ward, or any other service, answer before them within the castles by extortion and distraint; and they often take distraints at greater than the value distrained for. And they make process by capias in personal actions, and seize people and put them in prison within the said castles, taking heavy fines and redemptions for their release, and they empanel people by their ministers rather than by the sheriff or another minister of the king's to try these personal actions, and they harass them with amercements and distraints to their great destruction and disinheritance. And this is all for their own profit, not that of the king or the lords and constables of the castles. They request a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Any one who feels unreasonably aggrieved in this case, should come and show his grievance to the king's council, and he will be given what is just and reasonable.
- Places mentioned
- Kent.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated on the basis of the hand and language.
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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/C9735840/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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