What is a Petition?

Notes on the Histories of Recordkeeping

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  • 1292 Bills in Eyre

    In 1292 the English king’s justices at Shrewsbury in Shropshire heard the complaint of Thomas Colle of Shropshire against his brother who owed him money. He brought his legal action before the itinerant and omni-competent Justices of the General Eyre. Since the 12th century English kings had intermittently sent judges out on these visitations to

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I am finishing up an essay which I will post about when I am done: “A Prospetto of 1803: Records Classification by Materie from Habsburg Lombardy to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.”

Adam Pinkhurst archives bill Chaucer General Eyre Petition querela Thomas Cromwell