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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Cirencester Commons of parliament The people of Cirencester complain that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1459
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This record is about the People of Cirencester Commons of parliament The people of Cirencester complain that... dating from [1478] 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 8/30/1459
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1478]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Cirencester
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament
- Nature of request
- The people of Cirencester complain that the paving of their town is defective to the point of being dangerous, and that the inhabitants of the town are not corporate, and cannot be compelled to repair this paving by the common law, nor do they have any common lands, tenements, rents or revenues from which such repairs can be made. They ask the commons to ask the king to ordain by authority of parliament that all people with messuages, shops, tenements or other hereditaments in the town are to assemble annually at Michaelmas to choose two conservators of paving; and that all people with messuages, shops, tenements or other hereditaments in the town are to maintain the paving in front of their property, to the middle of the road, and to allow the conservators to do so in their default, and to distrain them for it.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[On dorse] Let it be done as is desired.
- Places mentioned
- Cyrceter (Cirencester), Gloucestershire
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament of January 17 Edward IV (1478) (Rot. Parl. vol. VI, p.180a-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 2436
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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. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), p.180a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061650/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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