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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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The people of the area of the court. King and council. The people and others who...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/70
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/2/70
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- The people of the area of the court.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people and others who often visit various parts of the court state that whereas the pavement of the road from the bar of the New Temple of London as far as the gate of the palace of Westminster is broken up so that rich and poor both by or on foot by their passing receive great damage, and in bad times are often hampered in pursuing their business by the condition of the street, whereby it will be honourable and profitable both to the king and those of the court, and to others that the pavement is repaired in due manner. They request that the king order what is thought best is to be done.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- William de Leyr of London and Richard Abbot are to be assigned by a writ to inspect the defects of the pavement between the bar and the palace gate, and to have them repaired between the same, and to distrain all those who have tenements and rents between the bar and the palace for the paving, namely each contributing in proportion to the pavement before their tenement and the rent of the same. The mayor and sheriffs of London, and the sheriff of Middlesex, and the bailiffs of Westminster are to be commanded to attend and assist them in their premises.2) The mayor and aldermen of London and similarly the prior and bailiffs of Westminster are summoned before the council of the king at Westminster to inform of the contents of the petition.3) Coram magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- La bar du novel temple (Temple Bar), [London]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- William de Leyr of London
- Richard Abbot.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition can be dated fairly closely to 1315 by the title contained in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.289 which notes this as being 'Responses made in the presence of the king and his great council in the parliament of the king after the Octave of St Hillary, in the 8th year'.
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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 8885
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.287 (writ relating to the surveying and repair of the pavement) & p.340 (grant of pavage for 3 years)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.302b (no. 56) (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text slightly modified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060183/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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