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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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Mayor, Aldermen and commons of London. Commons of parliament. The Mayor, Aldermen...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4238
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This record is about the Mayor, Aldermen and commons of London. Commons of parliament. The Mayor, Aldermen... dating from [c. 1440-c. 1470] 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 8/85/4238
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1440-c. 1470]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, Aldermen and commons of London.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor, Aldermen and commons of London state that amongst their franchises and liberties is the freedom of any person of free estate to apprentice his son or daughter as he pleases, or to receive any apprentice he pleases, and that this is being curtailed by a statute of 7 Henry IV restricting this to persons with land or rent worth 20s per annum. They ask the commons to ask the King and lords to ordain that the city of London might return to its previous usage in the matter of apprenticeships.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- London
- Westminster
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Henry IV, King of England
- Richard II, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No evidence has been found to date this petition. Its written hand suggests it was presented in a mid fifteenth century parliament, possibly an assembly which met in the 1460s.
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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 4986
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148780/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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