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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Chester. Council. The petitioners seek a letter under the privy seal or...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/102/5083
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This record is about the Commons of Chester. Council. The petitioners seek a letter under the privy seal or... dating from [c. 1381] 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 8/102/5083
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1381]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Chester.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek a letter under the privy seal or a chancery writ to the justices and the mayor of Chester, to enquire upon this petition and certify to the king's council as they find and order remedy. They state that by the king or his ancestors since time without memory etc., the mills of Chester have the right to multure of a fifteenth part of all the grain milled, which mills were recently leased to farm. The farmers have taken corn beyond their right by extortion and by colour of their farm etc., to the great impoverishment of the petitioners, which extortions still continue.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Chester, [Cheshire].
- People mentioned
- Mayor of Chester.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.6 of PRO 31/7/107
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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 2048
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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/C9149653/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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