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? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ to the sheriff concerning the sale of ale in...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/132B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ to the sheriff concerning the sale of ale in... dating from 1320 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/3/132B
Date
1320
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a writ to the sheriff concerning the sale of ale in the town of Oxford, and the assize of ale being used. The sheriff is to make a public proclamation that the burgesses are to sell their ale in the town according to the type of grain used just as it is sold in other boroughs.
Nature of endorsement
Writ for the university of Oxford.
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
London.
People mentioned
[John de Brompton], sheriff of Oxfordshire
Masters and scholars of the university of Oxford.
Note
The writ is dated in its dating clause to 26 July 1320.
Related material

For the petition with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/3/132A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6414
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.373b (no.21) (reference to the writ)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060251/

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