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The people of Carlisle. [King]. 1) The people request if the king wishes, that he...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/34

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Reference
SC 8/1/34
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
The people of Carlisle.
Addressees
[King].
Nature of request
1) The people request if the king wishes, that he order the justice of the forest of Inglewood that he allow them to take stone from the forest to cover their houses in the city without impediment in the forest as they are often afflicted by fire.2) They offer a prayer to the king for the ordering of the city, and that they may have good will for the rebuilding of the city, and that the king may be more fully answered for his farm, and the repairs be better than they have been in the past.
Nature of endorsement
Fiat
Places mentioned
Engelwode (Inglewood), [Cumberland].
People mentioned
[Robert de Clifford], Justice of the forest
Note
The petition is dated to 1305 based on the dating of Rot. Parl., vol I, p.159. This can be no later than the 25 April 1305 when the king granted the people of Carlisle the right to take stone from Inglewood.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3063
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.124 (no.199) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.166b (Latin summary of the first part of the petition, but with a different second request)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 209 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060146/

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