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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Barons of Dover. King. The barons of Dover request that the king ordain in this present...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1030
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/21/1030
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1390]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Barons of Dover.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The barons of Dover request that the king ordain in this present parliament that the ordinance made in Edward III's parliament at York, that all pilgrims leaving England must do so via Dover, might be firmly kept and upheld.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wishes that pilgrims and all other people wishing to pass over the sea out of the realm, except for known merchants and soldiers and men at arms, should do so via the ports of Dover or Plymouth, and not elsewhere without the king's special permission: but that those who wish to go to Ireland may cross from Liverpool, Chester, Bristol, or elsewhere as they please.
- Places mentioned
- Dover, [Kent]
- York
- Plymouth, [Devon]
- Liverpool, [Lancashire]
- Chester, [Cheshire]
- Bristol
- Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Edward [III], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III p.275a (no. 5) dates this petition to the parliament of January 1390 (1389, as they are using the old calendar), but the dating of many of the petitions ascribed by them to particular years of Richard II is not very secure.
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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 2773
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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.275a-b (no. 7) (full edition of original petition)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061191/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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