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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 land. King and Council. The commons of the land state that the warden...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/884
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This record is about the Commons of the land. King and Council. The commons of the land state that the warden... dating from [1377] 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 8/18/884
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the land.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The commons of the land state that the warden of the Fleet prison allows many of those imprisoned there by plea of debt to leave the prison to buy and sell, and to spend nights away from the prison, so that their creditors can have no recovery against them; they request that the warden be ordered henceforth not to allow any prisoner to leave without satisfying his creditors, except on the king's writ, on pain of forfeiture of his office into the king's hand.
- Nature of endorsement
- This bill has been answered among the common petitions.
- Places mentioned
- [London].
- People mentioned
- Warden of the Fleet prison.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- It is clear from Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.25a that this petition was presented to the October parliament of 1377. In Rot. Parl. it is one of the common petitions, and its text has been considerably modified, as has the text of the response, which is an assent, with a few refinements.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.41 of PRO 31/7/110
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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 1947
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.25a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, text modified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061037/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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