Piece
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
Item
Citizens of the city of . . . [Lost] [The petition is very fragmentary, with possibly...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4480
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This record is about the Citizens of the city of . . . [Lost] [The petition is very fragmentary, with possibly... dating from [? c.1370-c. 1420] 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 8/90/4480
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c.1370-c. 1420]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Citizens of the city of . . .
- Addressees
- [Lost]
- Nature of request
- [The petition is very fragmentary, with possibly two-thirds now missing, and it is impossible to reconstruct the contents coherently].Request concerning the exclusion of the steward and marshal from their liberty, and that citizens should not plead or be impleaded outside of the liberty
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- There is no evidence to date this petition, so it has been tentatively assigned to the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries on the basis of the hand and general appearance.
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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 317
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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/C9149025/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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