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? petitioner name(s) illegible Memorandum, entitled 'Domesday for Rochester bridge,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4234

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This record is about the ? petitioner name(s) illegible Memorandum, entitled 'Domesday for Rochester bridge,... dating from [1394] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/85/4234
Date
[1394]
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Memorandum, entitled 'Domesday for Rochester bridge, according to the Exchequer', of how the various vills, towns and other places of Kent were responsible for the upkeep of the old bridge of Rochester, apparently taken from Domesday book.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Borstal, [Kent]
Cuxton, [Kent]
Frindsbury, [Kent]
Stoke, [Kent]
Gillingham, [Kent]
Chatham, [Kent]
Halling, [Kent]
Trottiscliffe, [Kent]
Malling, [Kent]
Southfleet, [Kent]
Stone, [Kent]
Pinden, [Kent]
Fawkham, [Kent]
Aylesford, [Kent]
Lathe of Aylesford, [Kent]
Oakley, [Kent]
Ufenhull [unidentified], [Kent]
Smaleland [unidentified], [Kent]
Cossington, [Kent]
Dudesland, [unidentified], [Kent]
Gisleardesland, [unidentified], [Kent]
Wouldham, [Kent]
Burham, [Kent]
Eccles, [Kent]
Horsted, [Kent]
Farleigh, [Kent]
Teston, [Kent]
Chalk, [Kent]
Henhurst, [Kent]
Hothdonne, [unidentified], [Kent]
the Archdiocese [of Canterbury]
Wrotham, [Kent]
Maidstone, [Kent]
Wateringbury, [Kent]
Nettlestead, [Kent]
[East] Peckham, [Kent]
[West] Peckham, [Kent]
Hazel Hall, [Kent]
Mereworth, [Kent]
Leybourne, [Kent]
Swanton, [Kent]
Offham, [Kent]
Ditton, [Kent]
Westerham, [Kent]
Hollingbourne, [Kent]
Lathe of Hollingbourne (Eyhorne), [Kent]
Hoo, [Kent]
Northfleet, [Kent]
Cliffe, [Kent]
Higham, [Kent]
Denton, [Kent]
Milton, [Kent]
Luddesdown, [Kent]
Meopham, [Kent]
Snodland, [Kent]
Birling, [Kent]
Paddlesworth, [Kent].
People mentioned
The Bishop of Rochester.
Note
Formerly attached to SC 8/85/4233, which can be dated to the parliament of January 1394.
Related material

For the petition to which this memorandum was attached, see SC 8/85/4233

For a related petition concerning the new bridge at Rochester, see SC 8/147/7344

For a memorandum of the various responsibilities for the upkeep of the old bridge, duplicating this one and apparently attached to SC 8/86/4255, see SC 8/86/4256

For a related petition from the wardens of the new bridge, see SC 8/86/4255

For another petition from the same petitioners concerning the new bridge at Rochester, see SC 8/86/4254

For a near duplicate of SC 8/86/4254, see SC 8/119/5934

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4687
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148776/

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