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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and commonalty of the city of Chichester. King. The petitioners show that they...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/654
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This record is about the Mayor and commonalty of the city of Chichester. King. The petitioners show that they... 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 8/14/654
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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
- Mayor and commonalty of the city of Chichester.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners show that they and their predecessors in the time of the king's progenitors when impleaded for their free tenements were not accustomed to appear before justices of assizes of oyer and terminer and other inquisitions unless taken in the city. Now they are forced by the king and his justices and ministers by distress and amercements to appear with the other people of the county to their great damage, by which many leave the city.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Chichester, [Sussex].
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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. For variations between the original and that provided on the parliament rolls, see PROME, parliament of 1376, appendix, no. 9.
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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 1832
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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.348a (no.lxxxvi) (edition of a variant of this 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. 9 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060795/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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