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? No Petitioner named Damaged copy of a charter of King John, dated at Southwark...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/119/5906

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Damaged copy of a charter of King John, dated at Southwark... dating from [c. 1366] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/119/5906
Date
[c. 1366]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Damaged copy of a charter of King John, dated at Southwark on 10 May 1204, granting borough status with various rights and liberties on the town of Ilchester.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Ilchester, [Somerset]
Winchester, [Hampshire]
Langport, [Somerset]
Southwark, [Surrey].
People mentioned
John, King of England
Henry [II], King of England
William Dacus
[Herbert Poore], Bishop of Salisbury
Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex
William [Longespee], Earl of Salisbury
Richard [de Clare], Earl of Clare (Hertford)
[Hugh de] Neville
William Briwerre
William de Warenne
Simon de Patteshull.
Note
Dated at the foot to 10 May 1204, but produced for, and submitted with, the petition at SC 8/119/5905. This charter can also be found at Taunton, Somerset Record Office ms DD/SAS BK11 (from a copy under the seal of the men of Ilchester). Other references include PRO E 368/135 (LTR Memoranda Roll 37-38 Edward III) Communia Recorda Trinity term m.9r-d; CPR 1377-81, p.93; CPR 1413-16, p.322; Rot. Parl. Vol. III, p.619 (no.52).
Related material

For another copy of this charter, see m.3 of C 53/5

For the petition with which this document was submitted see SC 8/119/5905

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4606
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londiniensi Asservati, vol. I pt. I , ed. T.D. Hardy, (, 1837), p.130b (edition of original charter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150587/

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