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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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Commons of the county of Devonshire. King and council The commons request remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2079
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This record is about the Commons of the county of Devonshire. King and council The commons request remedy... dating from [c. 1285] 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 8/42/2079
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1285]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the county of Devonshire.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The commons request remedy as they have been oppressively reassessed by the collectors of the fifteenth in excessive sums so that their goods are insufficient to pay the same and the country will be ruined.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Devon
- Winchester, [Hampshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated approximately to 1285 by the reference within the petition to the parliament held at Westminster.
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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 2800
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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/C9062285/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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