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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Borough of Southwark Commons in parliament Despite an ordinance that no one who has...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/27/1309
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This record is about the Borough of Southwark Commons in parliament Despite an ordinance that no one who has... dating from [1437] 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 8/27/1309
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1437]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Borough of Southwark
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament
- Nature of request
- Despite an ordinance that no one who has dwelt at the common brothels (stywes) may have any common hostelries or taverns within the borough of Southwark, some have set up brothels within the high streets, where criminals are harboured, and Flemings have set up hostelries and taverns within the borough where they receive aliens and strangers, some of them enemies of the king. The petitioners ask that no one may have brothels within the borough except at the place called the common stywes, on pain of imprisonment for 40 days and making fine and ransom to the king, and that no alien may have a hostelry and tavern there after next Easter, on pain of imprisonment, fine and ransom; the justices of the peace of Surrey and the king's bailiff of the borough are to have power at all times to enquire about these things and impose punishment.
- Nature of endorsement
- No endorsement.
- Places mentioned
- Suthwerk (Southwark), Surrey
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in Rot. Parl. IV, p.511 to 15 Henry VI, i.e. the parliament which opened on 21 January 1437
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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 7092
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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)
- English
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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.511a-b (no.1) (edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061486/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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