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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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Commons of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Somerset, Bristol and Cheshire....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/117/5831
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This record is about the Commons of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Somerset, Bristol and Cheshire.... dating from [1449] 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 8/117/5831
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1449]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Somerset, Bristol and Cheshire.
- Addressees
- Commons.
- Nature of request
- The commons of these counties ask for the perpetual extension of an ordinance passed in the parliament of 1442 condemning as traitors any Welshmen taking goods from the inhabitants of these counties.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] 15 March [rest deleted].Let it be sent to the lords.[on dorse] The king wills that the ordinance made in the last parliament held at Westminster in the twentieth year of his reign for such wrongful taking to endure for six years, take effect and stand in force until the next parliament and then to expire.
- Places mentioned
- Herefordshire
- Gloucestershire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Bristol
- Cheshire
- Marches of Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by reference to Rot. Parl., vol. V, p. 155.
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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 4386
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.192 (brief calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.155a, no.3 (full edition of petition and response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150507/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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