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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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Mayor and commons of the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme. King and council The petitioners...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/64/3181
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This record is about the Mayor and commons of the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme. King and council The petitioners... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1350] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/64/3181
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and commons of the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that it be ordained that the sessions and the assizes be held in the town of Stafford which is a royal town, and which is in the middle of the county, as they are held at Lichfield and the people of the pays around Newcastle are greatly troubled and put to great cost by the distance.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the justices' assizes be held in a place for the ease of the county.
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle-under-Lyme, [Staffordshire]
- Lichfield, [Staffordshire]
- Stafford, [Staffordshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- There is no direct or indirect evidence to date this petition, so the first half of the fourteenth century has been suggested on the basis of its written style.
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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 6229
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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/C9106944/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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