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Lords. [Not specified] [This petition is faded and hard to read] The petition states...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/295/14731

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This record is about the Lords. [Not specified] [This petition is faded and hard to read] The petition states... dating from [? c. 1320-? c. 1350] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/295/14731
Date
[? c. 1320-? c. 1350]
Description
Petitioners
Lords.
Addressees
[Not specified]
Nature of request
[This petition is faded and hard to read] The petition states that when clerks are arrested on suspicion of a crime and are handed over to their ordinaries, if they escape from the ordinaries' prisons without their permission only 100s. will be asked for this escape. Therefore they etc.
Nature of endorsement
The eyres held in the past are to be searched for what has been done, and the king and his council informed, and what justice and reason demand is to be ordained for this. And they are to have a writ to stay proceedings until it has been tried whether the ordinaries should pay for such escapes or not.
People mentioned
Clerks arrested on suspicion of a crime.
Note
Tentatively dated on the basis of the hand.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735897/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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