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Mayor, aldermen, bailiffs and burgesses of the English towns of North Wales Commons...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/27/1336

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This record is about the Mayor, aldermen, bailiffs and burgesses of the English towns of North Wales Commons... dating from [1447] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/27/1336
Date
[1447]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor, aldermen, bailiffs and burgesses of the English towns of North Wales
Addressees
Commons of parliament
Nature of request
The petitioners request confirmation of their rights, infringed and jeopardised since the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr.
Nature of endorsement
The king wills it.
Places mentioned
North Wales
People mentioned
Henry IV [King of England]
Henry V [King of England]
Owain Glyndwr
Note
Datable to 1447 by reference to Rot. Parl., vol. V, pp. 138b-139a.
Related material

For a lreated petition see SC 8/261/13029

For a related petition see SC 8/131/6507

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8609
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.38-9 (defective calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.138b-139a (full edition of petition and endorsement)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061515/

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