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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Cockermouth King The burgesses request a grant of pontage during pleasure...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/22
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This record is about the Burgesses of Cockermouth King The burgesses request a grant of pontage during pleasure... dating from [1305] 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 8/1/22
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Cockermouth
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request a grant of pontage during pleasure for the repair of the three bridges of the borough which were swept away before Christmas by the great flood of water, by which the borough, which is a royal borough, and the market and all the king's rents there are greatly harmed, and the countryside round about is much damaged.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be for 5 years.
- Places mentioned
- Cokermuth (Cockermouth), [Cumberland]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1305 on the basis of the dating from Rot. Parl., vol I, p.159.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1416
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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)
- French
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.10 (no.10) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp. 127-8 (no.93) (full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.160a (no.7) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060134/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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