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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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Merchants and other people of the realm of England. King and council. The merchants...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/79/3915
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This record is about the Merchants and other people of the realm of England. King and council. The merchants... dating from [1302] 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 8/79/3915
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants and other people of the realm of England.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants and others request remedy and that the debts due to them be paid. The only record they have of the debts is in the rolls of the stewards and marshals, and they petition for redress at the Lincoln parliament, but following this, despite being ordered to produce the rolls the steward and marshal refused without special warrant from the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by writ of the great seal to steward and marshal of the King's Household that they bring all their rolls from their time to the next parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Lincoln.
- People mentioned
- Stewards
- Marshals.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 by the entry in Rot. Parl. where it is dated on the basis of Ryley transcripts as coming from a file of this date (Vol. I, p.155a (no.8)).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition differently endorsed see SC 8/313/E57
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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 5561
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.155a (no.8) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107691/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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