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? No Petitioner named [A very fragmentary document of Richard II, addressed to 'all...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1001A

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Reference
SC 8/21/1001A
Date
[1383-1386]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
[A very fragmentary document of Richard II, addressed to 'all the bailiffs and faithful . . .', presumably connected with the petition of the leathersellers and white tawyers that follows it at SC 8/21/1001B. It may be the charter of pardon mentioned in article 7 of that petition. All that can be made out are '. . . friendship and harmony between our same lieges . . . against our statute . . .of the same city, except those . . . to obey and to . . . our peace . . . belongs to us for all manner of treasons . . .royal majesty within the aforesaid city . . . be indicted or prosecuted for the same reason . . .on the aforesaid and any of the aforesaid we grant . . . in whose etc. Witness etc. at Westminster, on the twenty-second day of . . .']
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
[London].
People mentioned
Richard [II], king of England.
Note
Dated on the basis of Nicholas Brembre's three-year second term of office as Mayor of London, and on the assumption that it is a copy of the charter of pardon sued for by him and his accomplices during that term.
Related material

The petition to which this document appears to relate is SC 8/21/1001B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5222
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061160/

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