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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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Mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn. Council. The mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/19/921
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This record is about the Mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn. Council. The mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn... dating from [? 1379 - ? 1382] 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 8/19/921
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1379 - ? 1382]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn state that they have been charged by the king's progenitors with guarding their town at their own peril, and request that they may be arrayed by the mayor and other good people of the town, as they have been, and not harassed by any foreign arrayer, considering the harm that could come to the town by enemies if the people are troubled elsewhere, and especially from the enemies currently in those parts.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Lenn (King's Lynn), [Norfolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.70b (no. 6) assigns this petition to the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (1379), but not all the petitions in this section are from that parliament. A note on the guard dates it to '? 1381-2'. The petition can be tentatively dated to the first years of Richard II's reign.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.39 of PRO 31/7/108
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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 5069
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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.70b (no.6) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061076/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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