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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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The People of England. King and Parliament The petitioners seek the abolition of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4985
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This record is about the The People of England. King and Parliament The petitioners seek the abolition of... dating from [1401] 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 8/100/4985
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1401]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- The People of England.
- Addressees
- King and Parliament
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek the abolition of badges and liveries that promote faction and disunity among the people of the realm. They show that in the time of the king's progenitors the people were well and peaceably ruled and governed under their king and liege lord without divisions between them by knowledge of badges or other liveries, except livery of garments. Recently the king and other lords of the realm have distributed various badges amongst the commons to their great division, and by colour of their badges have maintained faction and oppression and disturbed the common law of the land etc.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to the commons' campaign against badges during the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV and suggested by Saul, 'Common and the Abolition of Badges', Parliamentary History 9 (1990), 302-15, to date to the parliament of 1401.
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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 1806
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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)
- The Commons and the Abolition of Badges, N. Saul, (Parliamentary History, IX, pp. 302-315, 1990), pp.314-315 (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149552/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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