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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
Item
The community of Kent. King and council. The community requests remedy concerning...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/147
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This record is about the The community of Kent. King and council. The community requests 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 8/3/147
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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
- The community of Kent.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The community requests remedy concerning the extortionate dues and customs relating to payments for green wax.
- Nature of endorsement
- The sheriff of the county is ordered to forbid all of his bailiffs, both within the county as beyond, from doing the things contained within the petition on pain of grave forfeiture, and not to suffer his bailiffs to do it. And if they will not desist by this [...].
- Places mentioned
- Kent.
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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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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 4570
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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.377b (no.58) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060267/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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