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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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Mayor and community of Dover King The Mayor and community of Dover complain that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1422
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This record is about the Mayor and community of Dover King The Mayor and community of Dover complain that... dating from [1463-1465] 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 8/29/1422
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1463-1465]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and community of Dover
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The Mayor and community of Dover complain that an ordinance made by authority of the parliament held in 9 Edward III, and another made by authority of the parliament of 13 Richard II, that no traveller, except for soldiers and merchants with their ships loaded with merchandise, travelling to or from Calais, should use any port except Dover, has now fallen into disuse, and ask the king to re-establish this ordinance by authority of the present parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- The commons have assented to this bill (on face).Let it be done as is desired (on dorse).
- Places mentioned
- Dover, Kent
- the Cinque Ports
- Calais, [France]
- People mentioned
- Edward III, King of England
- Richard II, King of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is transcribed on the roll of the parliament initially summoned at Westminster in April 1463 and prorogued several times, lasting until January 1465 (Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.568a-b)
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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 1900
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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. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.568a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061609/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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