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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Citizens of Norwich. King. The citizens of Norwich make five requests:1) They request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/65/3217
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This record is about the Citizens of Norwich. King. The citizens of Norwich make five requests:1) They request... dating from [? 1305] 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 8/65/3217
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Citizens of Norwich.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The citizens of Norwich make five requests:1) They request confirmation of their charters.2) They state that they have always enjoyed infangthief and [missing due to damage to ms. probably outfangthief] without this being specified in their charters. They ask that these rights may be specifically granted by charter.3) They state that the sheriffs are attaching and imprisoning their fellow-citizens, contrary to their franchise. They ask the king to grant that none of their citizens is to be attached or imprisoned outside their franchise, but that if the Bailiffs of Norwich so demand, they should be handed over to them to be held in safe-keeping until they can be delivered at common law.4) They state that their farm is so high that it cannot be paid without the aid of certain vacant sites which they have built on and arrented. They ask that they might be granted these sites to hold forever in aid of their farm.5) They ask that none of their fellow-citizens might be distrained to attend shire courts, hundred courts, sheriff's tourns or leets by reason of tenements they hold outside Norwich, or to sit on external juries and inquests, while they are living in the city; as this is contrary to statute.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Norwich, [Norfolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? c. 1305', with reference the grant of a charter of liberties to the citizens of Norwich on 8 July 1305 (CChR 1300-26 p.59). As little information is given there, it is hard to tell if this is the confirmation of charters requested here, but the date is plausible.
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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 6006
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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. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.59 (grant to citizens of Norwich of a charter of liberties)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106980/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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