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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
Abbot and convent of .... [Lost]. [The petition is fragmentary with much of the upper...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/342/16130
What’s it about?
This record is about the Abbot and convent of .... [Lost]. [The petition is fragmentary with much of the upper... dating from [c. 1323-c. 1340] 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 8/342/16130
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1323-c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of ....
- Addressees
- [Lost].
- Nature of request
- [The petition is fragmentary with much of the upper part missing, and the remainder is only partially legible].The abbot and convent complain that their suit has been long delayed, the king having ordered his justices to delay, and afterwards he ordered them to proceed to take the inquisition notwithstanding his previous order, and having taken it they ceased before rendering judgment by virtue of the king's order. The abbot and convent request that the justices be commanded to proceed to judgment based upon the verdict of the inquisition, and do what they ought to do.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey le Scrop (Scrope), justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1323-c. 1340 based upon the hand and the reference to Geoffrey le Scrope as justice, he serving in both benches between those two dates (Sainty, The Judges of England, (1993), pp. 6, 7, 62, 63).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 6/3/24).
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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/C9736611/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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