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Illegible. [Not specified]. [The petition has suffered some damage with a portion...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1369

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This record is about the Illegible. [Not specified]. [The petition has suffered some damage with a portion... dating from [? c. 1300] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/346/E1369
Date
[? c. 1300]
Description
Petitioners
Illegible.
Addressees
[Not specified].
Nature of request
[The petition has suffered some damage with a portion missing from the left-hand side of the document, and the remaining test being barely legible. The petition refers to an assize of novel disseisin and to the repeated adjournment of the suit and requests remedy so that the petitioner(s) is not disinherited].
Nature of endorsement
He should go before the justices of the Bench of the King, and there let justice be done, etc.
Places mentioned
Sussex.
People mentioned
Robert de Retford
Henry de [...]
Isabel [de Multon], widow of Thomas de Multon.
Note
The petition is dated to? c. 1300 because the petition makes mention of the 28th year, and the hand is appropriate to a petition of Edward I reign.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Unsorted Miscellanea of the Exchequer (transferred August 1932).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736793/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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