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Wardens of the bridge of Rochester. King. The petitioners ask that they and their...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/86/4255

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This record is about the Wardens of the bridge of Rochester. King. The petitioners ask that they and their... dating from [1395] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/86/4255
Date
[1395]
Description
Petitioners
Wardens of the bridge of Rochester.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petitioners ask that they and their successors might have permission to purchase land and tenements to an annual value of £200, in aid both of the new bridge and to support three chaplains near the bridge. They also ask that they might be appointed for term of both their lives to survey the faults in the wardens and in the bridge, and to make repairs to it, and that commissions might be granted when necessary to suitable persons to survey the bridge and its faults, and to compel people to make reparation, and to punish those who do not do so, and to hear and determine all other articles touching the bridge.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Rochester, [Kent].
People mentioned
John de Cobeham (Cobham)
Robert de Knoll.
Note
CPR 1391-6 p.550 is dated 30 January 1395, and seems to be contemporary with this petition.
Related material

For a memorandum of the various responsibilities for the upkeep of the old bridge, formerly attached to SC 8/85/4233, see SC 8/85/4234

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

For another petition concerning the new bridge at Rochester, see SC 8/85/4233

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

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7051
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.550 (grant that the wardens of the old bridge of Rochester might be established forever to keep and supervise the new bridge, and licence for them to acquire in mortmain lands and tenements to the value of £200 annually in aid of its repair, and licence for John, Lord Cobham to found a chantry for three chaplains in his new chapel at the end of the bridge)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148797/

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