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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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Not specified King. The petitioner or petitioners complain that the franchise of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/59/2922
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This record is about the Not specified King. The petitioner or petitioners complain that the franchise of... dating from [c. 1321] 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 8/59/2922
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1321]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Not specified
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner or petitioners complain that the franchise of the city of London make it hard for outsiders to get justice there. They ask that people of the community of the realm and aliens might be able to take action at common law without being repelled by the franchise; and that inquisitions taken at the suit of outsiders might be held half with Londoners and half with outsiders who live near London, who are not bound to them by oath.
- Nature of endorsement
- This is an unjust petition.
- Places mentioned
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '?? c. 1321' with reference to Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis vol. II.1, p.285. There is also a reference to SC 8/59/2923 and SC/59/2924. The language and the hand of these three petitions seems similar, and indeed the row of holes for rulings in the left margin of each petition, stretching from top to bottom of the parchment, suggests that they were once part of a single membrane.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A related petition is SC 8/59/2923
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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 4949
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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/C9063142/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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