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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the land. King and council. The people of the land state that when the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3808
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This record is about the People of the land. King and council. The people of the land state that when the... dating from [c. 1297] 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 8/77/3808
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the land.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of the land state that when the King ordered all those who had wools to take them to certain places on the morrow of Easter, in the King's twenty-fifth year, where they would find merchants to buy them, on pain of forfeiture of the wools, the said wools were taken for the King's use and tallies given for them, but no payment; and that those who did not bring their wools had them taken also, as forfeit, without any payment or tallies. They ask that they might be pardoned this forfeiture, and that satisfaction might be made for these wools as for the others, according to what is found by the rolls of the receivers in the Exchequer.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King pardons the forfeiture, and wishes satisfaction to be made for the wools taken in this way, as can be found by the rolls of the receivers which are in the Exchequer, notwithstanding the fact that they were not brought, and that those whose wools they were have no tallies for them. s' pp.316-317 dates this petition to that year.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated c. 1297, with reference to the mentions of these orders concerning wools, and of pardons for disobeying them, in 1297, in CCR 1296-1302 pp.33, 35 etc. The morrow of Easter, 25 Edward I would be in 1297. Haskins, 'Petitions' pp.316-317 dates this petition to that year.
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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 3009
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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)
- Three Early Petitions of the Commonalty, G.L. Haskins, (Speculum, XII, pp. 314-318, 1937), pp.316-317 (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107582/
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