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? No Petitioner named Writ ordering the sheriff to proclaim to all vintners and taverners...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/138

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ ordering the sheriff to proclaim to all vintners and taverners... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/3/138
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ ordering the sheriff to proclaim to all vintners and taverners selling wine at retail in his bailiwick, that a gallon of should be sold for not more than 3d. under pain of heavy forfeiture.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
[Robert de Horton], sheriff of Devon.
Note
The copy of a writ is dated to 1320 with the petition with which it was formerly enclosed (SC 8/3/139). The writ is dated in its dating clause to 20 June 1315.
Related material

For the petition with which this copy of a writ was formally enclosed, see SC 8/3/139

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2483
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060258/

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SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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? No Petitioner named Writ ordering the sheriff to proclaim to all vintners and taverners...

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