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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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Commons of the counties of Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, and parts of Suffolk,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/16/751
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This record is about the Commons of the counties of Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, and parts of Suffolk,... dating from [1353-1373] 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 8/16/751
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1353-1373]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the counties of Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, and parts of Suffolk, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Leicestershire.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners complain that they suffer great hardships because there is no staple of wools and woolfells closer to them than Norwich or Boston, both of which are very distant, and request that one be established at King's Lynn.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is to be so until it is ordained otherwise.
- Places mentioned
- Huntingdonshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Suffolk
- Northamptonshire
- Bedfordshire
- Leicestershire
- Norwich, [Norfolk]
- La Ville de Seint Botolf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
- Lenn (King's Lynn), [Norfolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in a note on the guard to 1353-1373, these being the original date of the establishment of domestic staples (1353) and the date when King's Lynn was given its own staple (1373). On balance it seems most likely that the petition may relate to the more closely to the latter.
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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 4091
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.396b (no.106) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060892/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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