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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
Item
Mayor and commonalty of the City of Chichester King and council The petitioners request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1894
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This record is about the Mayor and commonalty of the City of Chichester King and council The petitioners request... dating from [1377] 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 8/38/1894
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and commonalty of the City of Chichester
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that they be able to distrain the possessions of every man who are able to be distrained for the making of the ditch and the repair of the walls of the city according to the quantity of their possessions.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Cicestre (Chichester), [Sussex]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be firmly dated to 1377 by the appointment of the mayor and bailiff in accordance with the petition and response (CPR 1377-81, p.72).
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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 1462
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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)
- French
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.72 (appointment of the mayor and bailiffs to repair their walls and ditches, making charges)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062097/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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