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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Winchester. King and council. The burgesses request that the king grant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/106
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This record is about the Burgesses of Winchester. King and council. The burgesses request that the king grant... dating from [1316] 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 8/3/106
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Winchester.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request that the king grant a writ for the making of a proclamation in the town that no brewers or other men make malt from wheat, because wheat has greatly failed in those parts, and of that which there is so much has been taken out of the country by sea for the purveyance of great lords that the king cannot allow this to continue because of the great scarcity for the sustenance of the people who reside in the town and the country around, who are suffering greatly by the failure.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The mayor and bailiffs of Winchester are ordered that it should be publicly proclaimed in the city strictly prohibiting brewers in the same city from henceforth making malt from wheat under grave forfeiture. And the cause is to be inserted into the head of the writ etc. on account of the shortage of grain etc. And the same is now ordered elsewhere through all etc.2) Coram toto consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Winchester, [Hampshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1316 by the title in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.337 referring to the parliament at Lincoln after the octave of St Hillary, 9 Edward II.
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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 8807
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.340b (no. 10) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060219/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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