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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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People of county of Kent. King and council. The people show that though many of them...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/652
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This record is about the People of county of Kent. King and council. The people show that though many of them... dating from [1376] 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 8/14/652
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of county of Kent.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people show that though many of them hold nothing of Dover castle, and it has no jurisdiction over them, they are constrained grievously by the ministers of the castle by all manner of personal pleas which attain to the king and the liberties of other lords by which they are ruined. They request that the king ordain that the castle have such liberty as anciently are due, but that the usages and customs made by new encroachment are repealed so that the people are not ruined forever.
- Nature of endorsement
- The ministers should not have jurisdiction beyond the fee of the honour of the castle of Dover, nor make process by capias beyond the liberty of the Cinque Ports.
- Places mentioned
- Kent
- Dover, [Kent]
- Cinque Ports.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This survives as a transcript from common petitions that are dated in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.321 to the parliament held at Westminster on 28 April 1376; see also PROME, parliament of 1376, appendix, no. 7.
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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 4576
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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)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.346a (no.lxxvi) (edition of petition as common petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1376, appendix, no. 7 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060793/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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