Catalogue description Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named Nature of Request: Copy of a writ of subpoena...

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Details of SC 8/102/5075A
Reference: SC 8/102/5075A
Description:
Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named
Nature of request: Copy of a writ of subpoena to the mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge to answer a parliamentary petition by the chancellor and scholars of the university and to make final agreement on all the matters contained therein etc., on pain of £100 for non-attendance, on Saturday next in the presence of king and council in parliament, with instruments and information touching the matters contained in the said petition etc.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned: Richard II, King of England; [Richard Masterman], Mayor of Cambridge; Chancellor of Cambridge University.
Note: Datable from internal evidence.
Date: [1390]
Related material:

For the declaration originally attached to this writ see SC 8/102/5075B

For a petition concerning the same persons see SC 8/21/1024
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 2038
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Latin
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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