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Mayor and community of London. King and council. The Mayor and community of London...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/59/2927
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This record is about the Mayor and community of London. King and council. The Mayor and community of London... dating from [1318] 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 8/59/2927
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and community of London.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor and community of London state that the King's stewards and marshals are sending bills to the Sheriffs of London to attach various citizens to answer to pleas of debt, trespass, contract, and other pleas, contrary to the Great Charter, the ordinances, and their charters and franchises; and they have allowed no challenges to this, but are distraining these citizens to answer on these matters; and the Sheriffs of London for the eleventh year have been charged in their accounts with the issues forfeited before the steward and marshals. They request a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because John de Cherleton and Roger le Palmere, citizens of London, who sue in this parliament for the same city did not have the charters of their liberties here to show the King's council, therefore this business is to be placed before the Chancellor, Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, that they, calling to themselves the justices of both Benches and others of the king's council there, having examined the charters etc., are to discuss the matter as the law demands and requires. And in the meantime they are to have a writ to the same Treasurer and Barons to suspend the levying of the issues contained in the petition.
- Places mentioned
- London.
- People mentioned
- The King's stewards and marshals
- John de Cherleton
- Roger le Palmere (Palmer).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The Latin summary of the petition is enrolled on the roll of the October parliament of 12 Edward II (1318) (Docs. Illus. English History p.31).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate petition without the endorsement, see SC 8/324/E642
For a later petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/120/5973
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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 4749
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.31 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063147/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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Mayor and community of London. King and council. The Mayor and community of London...