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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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Soldiers in the castles in the March of Picardy. Lords and commons of parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1139
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This record is about the Soldiers in the castles in the March of Picardy. Lords and commons of parliament.... dating from [? 1414] 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 8/23/1139
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1414]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Soldiers in the castles in the March of Picardy.
- Addressees
- Lords and commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The soldiers in the castles in the March of Picardy complain that they have to leave their post, weakening the defences in Picardy, and spend large sums of money in coming to England to sue for their wages, and ask the lords and commons to ask the king, in the present parliament, to ordain that they might be paid their wages in the Exchequer at Calais, according to the tenor of their indentures, as was done in the past; and that sufficient assignments for payments might be made to the Treasurer of Calais, to provide for this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Soit prie a Roy (A request is to be made to the king).[On dorse] They are to sue to the king and his council.
- Places mentioned
- Picardy, [France]
- Calais, [France].
- People mentioned
- Treasurer of Calais.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. IV, p.55a (no.1), assigns this petition to 1414, and most of the surrounding petitions that can be dated seem to be from that year.
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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 6731
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.55a (no.1) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061306/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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