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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of North Wales. King and council. The people request that the trespassers...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/79/3922
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This record is about the People of North Wales. King and council. The people request that the trespassers... dating from [? 1308-? 1309] 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 8/79/3922
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1308-? 1309]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of North Wales.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request that the trespassers from Powys and other lands adjoining theirs who come and take distraints from them according to their custom without doing right be distrained to be before the justice, or that they have the king's licence to take distraints from the trespasser's lands.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is ordered to the justice of Wales to be informed of the usages that the people of the princes were accustomed to use, and he is to maintain the king's people in their ancient usages, and he is to do right and reason to them for the trespasses according to the usages.
- Places mentioned
- North Wales
- Powys, [Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rees dates this to? 1308-1309 on the basis that the matter raised in this petition was current at this time among the complaints of other individuals (Petitions Relating to Wales, pp.114-5).
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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 8378
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.114-5 (full calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107698/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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