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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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Bailiffs and commons of Canterbury. King and council The petitioners state that a...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1984
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This record is about the Bailiffs and commons of Canterbury. King and council The petitioners state that a... dating from [c. 1327-c. 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 8/40/1984
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327-c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bailiffs and commons of Canterbury.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that a great number of the fullers of the city have left the city because they did not wish to work in the pits of the city. They request that it be granted to the citizens that all cloths made by them be fulled by fullers of the city except the fullers allowed to send cloths of little value out of the city to be fulled at mills provided that they are sent back to the city to be finished by the fullers of the city under pain of forfeiture of the cloths.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Canterbury, [Kent].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No positive context has been established and the petition is dated her notionally to the reign of Edward III.
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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 1701
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062188/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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