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Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen and community of London. King. The Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1068

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This record is about the Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen and community of London. King. The Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen... dating from [1399] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/22/1068
Date
[1399]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen and community of London.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen and community of London request that a statute made in the twenty-eighth year of Edward III, which provides for the correction of abuses of government in London and other cities and boroughs, be annulled, as contrary to their charters, to the common law, and to the Great Charter.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] The clarification of the first petition from London.[On dorse] The king, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and of the commons of this present parliament, wishes and grants that the penalties of one thousand and two thousand marks, and of the seizure of the franchise, contained in this petition, should not be defined absolutely, but that the penalty in this case should be at the advice and discretion of the justices to be assigned for this, as is the case for other cities and boroughs within the realm; and that the rest of the statute, and its process, should remain in force.
Places mentioned
London
Kent
Essex
Sussex
Hertfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Berkshire.
Note
This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament on the Monday of the feast of St Faith, 1 Henry IV (1399) (Rot. Parl. vol.III, pp.442b-443b).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5159
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.442b-443b (transcription of petition on parliament roll, text modified, as a common petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061232/

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