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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Community of Devon and Cornwall. King and council The community request remedy concerning...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/139
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This record is about the Community of Devon and Cornwall. King and council The community request remedy concerning... dating from [1320] 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 8/3/139
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Community of Devon and Cornwall.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The community request remedy concerning the high price that the merchants of those counties charge for wine. They had a writ to amend this, but nothing was done on it.
- Nature of endorsement
- The sheriff should have another writ just as the other under heavy forfeiture.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Exeter, [Devon]
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1320 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.365 for the parliament held on Monday in the octave of St Michael, 14 Edward II.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the writ formerly enclosed with this petition see SC 8/3/138
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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 2484
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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.375a (no.40) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060259/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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