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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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The Burgesses of Carmarthen King and council The petitioners seek the king's aid...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/55/2714
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This record is about the The Burgesses of Carmarthen King and council The petitioners seek the king's aid... dating from [c. 1330] 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 8/55/2714
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- The Burgesses of Carmarthen
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek the king's aid in the maintenance of Carmarthen as a viable port for themselves and for the king, because ships laden with wine from the south that came to the port now withdraw because of a new custom called the gauge (which was never levied before in the time of any king) and unload at Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Tenby, and Swansea, and all around where there is no gauge.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let an order be made to the keepers of the gauge not to exact the gauge in Carmarthen other than that it was wont to be exacted in times past.
- Places mentioned
- Kermerdyn (Carmarthen), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Haverford (Haverfordwest), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
- Penebrok (Pembroke), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
- Tyngbegh (Tenby), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
- Sweneshegh (Swansea), [Glamorgan, Wales]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From Petitions Relating to Wales, p.79 (where the dating is not very secure).
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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 1721
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.79 (calendar and references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062932/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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