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Burgesses of Dorchester King and council The burgesses of Dorchester make ten requests:1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2122
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This record is about the Burgesses of Dorchester King and council The burgesses of Dorchester make ten requests:1)... dating from [c. 1337] 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 8/43/2122
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Dorchester
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Dorchester make ten requests:1) They have held their town without a charter for an annual sum, and now ask for a charter to hold the town at fee farm, paying the same farm, and with fairs, markets, franchises, free customs and all other things pertaining to the town.2) They ask that they might be able to choose bailiffs from amongst themselves under the charter, as they have previously done without the charter.3) They ask that those pleading before the bailiffs in pleas of contract or trespass within the franchise, might not be obstructed by the custom called miskenning.4) They request return of writs and summons in all matters concerning the town.5) They ask that they might be quit of toll, murage, pavage, lastage, quayage, pesage, tronage, cornage, geld and tallage, except when the king taxes his ancient demesnes.6) They ask that it might be established by the charter that justices of assizes and other inquests to be held in the county should sit at Dorchester and not elsewhere.7) They ask that pleas concerning lands or tenements in the town, or trespasses or contracts arising in the town, should not be heard elsewhere.8) They ask that no outsider should be redeemed by a burgess and no burgess redeemed by an outsider, before justices of assize, or appointed to hold inquests in the town, or of gaol delivery, concerning lands or tenements in the town, or trespasses or contracts arising within the town.9) They ask that no burgess should be summoned or empanelled by reason of a tenement outside the town while he is living in the town.10) They ask that a burgess should be convicted concerning a contract or trespass arising within the town only by another burgess and not by an outsider.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Dorchester, [Dorset]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This has been dated on the guard to c.1324 with reference to SC 8/44/2187, an earlier petition on the matter; but the entry in the CChR (when Dorchester was granted its fee farm) suggests c.1337 as the actual date - which is confirmed by C 143/241/18, dated 11 Edward III (25 January 1337-24 January 1338).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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An inquisition ad quod damnum into this matter is C 143/241/18
A related petition is SC 8/44/2187
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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 2619
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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 Charter Rolls, vol. IV, 1-14 Edw III, 1327-1341, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.423 (Grant to the burgesses of Dorchester of their borough at fee farm)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062328/
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