Medieval Petitions: A catalogue of the 'Ancient Petitions' in the Public Record Office

Project start date: 2003-04 Project end date: 2006-03
The series know as 'Ancient Petitions' in The National Archives: Public Record Office consists of 17,629 petitions presented to the English crown between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries, written in Anglo-Norman French, Latin and Middle English. They provide a wealth of unexploited data on the political, legal, social, cultural and biographical history of later medieval England and of its dependencies. The 'Medieval Petitions' project will result in the provision of detailed search facilities for 'Ancient Petitions' available on The National Archives: Public Record Office website both through PROCAT (the Public Record Office's main catalogue) and Documents Online (which has its own search facility). In addition, Documents Online will provide facsimiles of the 17,629 documents contained in the series.
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Methods usedCategory
2d Scanning and photographyData capture
Funding sources: 
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created: 
Still Image/Graphics
Source material used:  
The National Archives: Public Record Office, Ancient Petitions (SC 8).
Digital resource created:  
The digitised images of all the documents in The National Archives: Public Record Office series 'Ancient Petitions' will be made available on line at the conclusion of the project via TNA's 'Documents Online' facility.
Access to digital resource:  
Open Access

Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
University of York
UK HE institutions involved:
The National Archives

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:Professor William Ormrod
Other staff:Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s)
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Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordW. Mark Ormrod
TitleMedieval Petitions: A catalogue of the 'Ancient Petitions' in the Public Record Office
Record created2005-11-07
Record updated2010-06-11 11:17
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2193
Citation of recordW. Mark Ormrod: Medieval Petitions: A catalogue of the 'Ancient Petitions' in the Public Record Office.
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created: 2005-11-07, last updated 2010-06-11 11:17