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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University King The Chancellor and scholars of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1438
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This record is about the Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University King The Chancellor and scholars of... dating from [1472] 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 8/29/1438
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1472]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University state that by the king's letters patent dated 3 July, in the first year of his reign, he reduced the 100s. they were accustomed to pay annually for the right to the assize of bread, wine and ale, and the correction of the same, in Oxford and its suburbs, to 1 penny, but that this grant has been resumed, for lack of any proviso to the acts of resumption since made. They ask the king to re-authorise these letters patent as good and effective, 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
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament summoned at Westminster in October 1472 (12 Edward IV) and prorogued a number of times until January 1475 (Rot. Parl. vol. VI, pp.33b-34a). It would seem, from pp.3a and 39a that this petition was delivered during the session which lasted from 3 October to 30 November 1472.
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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 6339
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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)
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- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.160 (no.131) (full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.33b-34a (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061626/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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