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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Kingston upon Hull. [King] The burgesses make a number of requests.1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/119/5907B
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This record is about the Burgesses of Kingston upon Hull. [King] The burgesses make a number of requests.1)... dating from [1299-1307] 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 8/119/5907B
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1299-1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Kingston upon Hull.
- Addressees
- [King]
- Nature of request
- The burgesses make a number of requests.1) They request an enquiry into the state and ownership of the bridges and roads leading to the town, and for them to be repaired to allow merchants to reach the town easily.2) They request that no person be attached or distrained in the town for debt or trespass unless they are the pledge, principal debtor or malefactor, since alien merchants and mariners are withdrawing from the town due to their indebtedness for the customs.3) They request letters from the king confirming their privileges regarding merchants attached for debt in the king's court.4) They request letters form the king to the merchants of London informing them of the markets and fairs held in Hull. They also ask for similar letters to the Count of Flanders and the Duke of Brabant.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] 1) Let them have a writ of Chancery that the bridges and roads should be repaired by those whose ancestors had held them.2) Of this nothing.3) Of this nothing.4) They shall have a writ of Chancery to the Mayor and sheriffs of London, and also to the bailiffs of Boston, that they should make proclamations in their towns.[on dorse] Before the Treasurer.Such of this petition should not proceed which is against the laws and customs of the realm.
- Places mentioned
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Yorkshire
- London
- Boston, [Lincolnshire]
- Flanders
- Brabant.
- People mentioned
- Sheriff of Yorkshire
- Count of Flanders
- Duke of Brabant.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The issue of markets and fairs relates back to the granting of such things on 1 April 1299 (CChR 1257-1300, pp.475-6). The document was presumably presented alongside SC 8/119/5907A, to which it is firmly attached, but the handwriting is different, and it may be earlier.
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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 4607
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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 Charter Rolls, vol. II, Hen III and Edw I, 1257-1300, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.475-6 (grant that the town of Hull shall be a free borough, with various rights and privileges)
- Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull, C. Frost, (, 1827), p.52n (edition of final clause of this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150589/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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