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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Citizens of the City of London. King and council The petitioners seek recovery of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5966
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This record is about the Citizens of the City of London. King and council The petitioners seek recovery of... dating from [1377] 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 8/120/5966
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Citizens of the City of London.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek recovery of their ancient right to control the fisheries between the rivers Thames and Medway forever, as confirmed by various charters and by the king, for the honour and profit of the king and all the commonality and for the safety of the said rivers. At Neuport's suggestion the king has granted him control of the said fisheries by letters of the privy seal to the mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of the city.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the charters be shown before the king's council and the parties called there and hearing their arguments, let the business be shown to the king, and let justice be done.
- Places mentioned
- London
- River Thames
- River Medway.
- People mentioned
- Raynand de Neuport, Fleming.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to the parliament of January 1377 on the basis of the adoption of the petition by the commons and its inclusion among the common petitions at Rot Parl., vol. II, p. 366.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition with no endorsements see SC 8/57/2845
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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 4756
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.366 (no. 30) (common petition in parliament arising from this petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January 1377, appendix no. 3 (calendar of petition and references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150659/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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