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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Men of the town of Bury St Edmunds. King and council The petitioners state that during...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/44/2199
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/44/2199
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1400]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Men of the town of Bury St Edmunds.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that during this current vacancy that the keeper by the command of the king put in respite until the quinzene of Michaelmas the demand that he had made of the men for a recognizance of 100 marks to be paid to the king for the vacancy though this has never happened before. They have come to court to request that the king maintain and sustain them in their estate and they put themselves on the enquiry of the country that this was never demanded.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is expedited.
- Places mentioned
- Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- John de Berewyk (Berwick), Keeper of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds during the vacancy.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to some time in the fourteenth century.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an unendorsed duplicate of this petition see SC 8/44/2200
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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 2949
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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/C9062409/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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