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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Free tenants of North Wales. [None] The tenants request that no goods that are not...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/79/3925
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This record is about the Free tenants of North Wales. [None] The tenants request that no goods that are not... dating from [c. 1307-c. 1322] 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 8/79/3925
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-c. 1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Free tenants of North Wales.
- Addressees
- [None]
- Nature of request
- The tenants request that no goods that are not for sale be taken to stock the king's castles or sustain his justice or other ministers as this was not the custom in the time of the princes. They should purchase what they need from markets and fairs for a reasonable price.
- Nature of endorsement
- The justice of North Wales is ordered that he is not to permit prises to be taken other than those accustomed to be taken in times past, and he should do speedy justice to those who wish to complain of prises taken from them.
- Places mentioned
- North Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is not easy to date, though it is very probable that it dates to Edward II's reign. Rees does suggest a date in the first years of Edward II, and though the matter does seem to be current late in Edward I's reign and into the first years of Edward II, Rees also shows that it was a matter complained of well into Edward III's reign. As the petition is endorsed in Latin, the petition is likely to date to before 1322, but the evidence is not sufficient to be as precise as Rees has been, so a date of 1307-1322 has been adopted (Petitions Relating to Wales, p.115).
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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 8379
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.115 (calendar of petition)
- The Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia, E.A. Lewis, (, 1912), pp.295-6 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107701/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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