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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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Burgesses of Huntingdon King and council [The petition is badly damaged, and part...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/53/2630
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This record is about the Burgesses of Huntingdon King and council [The petition is badly damaged, and part... dating from [? 1348] 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 8/53/2630
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Huntingdon
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged, and part of it is missing] The burgesses of Huntingdon ask that certain things might be specified and set down clearly in their charter, in aid of their farm, which it is impoverishing them to pay. They ask, among other things, that the king's Clerk of the Market [might not] interfere in their affairs; that the burgesses might be free and have the free customs they have enjoyed since ancient times; that they might have cognisance of certain pleas; and that they might have issues, fines and amercements in their town in aid of their farm.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire]
- People mentioned
- The King's Clerk of the Market
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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 4326
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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. V, 15 Edw III - 5 Hen V, 1341-1417, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.94 (inspeximus and confirmation of a charter of the burgesses of Huntingdon, with certain liberties and customs specified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062846/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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