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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Tenants of the town of King's Langley. King. The tenants complain that the prior...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/345/E1324
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This record is about the Tenants of the town of King's Langley. King. The tenants complain that the prior... dating from [c. 1425-c. 1450] 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 8/345/E1324
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1425-c. 1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tenants of the town of King's Langley.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The tenants complain that the prior and his brothers have wounded them so they dare not go about their business, they should be enclosed, but issue from a gate in their precinct, they neglect their parsonage, have taken their agriculture in hand and excluded the secular farmers, they common so many cattle on the common that it is bare, and the townspeople cannot common their cattle their, they carry weapons and make assaults upon the tenants going about their husbandry, they receive suspect people and women of ill repute, and they sue the townspeople at Westminster if they dare to make complaint to their utter ruin. They request that letters of the privy seal are directed to the prior to appear personally before the king and council to answer such articles and causes that the tenants shall allege against him and others of his house, and to receive such direction as seems expedient so that the friars live according to their religion, and the tenants can live in peace without any vexation of trouble of the prior or any one for him or in his name.
- Nature of endorsement
- Against the prior of Langley Regis.
- Places mentioned
- King's Langley, [Hertfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Robert Thomson, prior of King's Langley.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1425-c. 1450 on the basis of the hand, and also because the petition is in English. The hand might suggest a date early in this range.
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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)
- English
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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/C9736745/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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