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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and commonalty of London. King and council. The mayor and commonalty request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5973
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This record is about the Mayor and commonalty of London. King and council. The mayor and commonalty request... dating from [1318-1327] 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 8/120/5973
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318-1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and commonalty of London.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The mayor and commonalty request that the matter raised by them by petition at the parliament at York concerning the breach of their liberties whereby certain of the king's ministers summon them to answer for many pleas outside of the walls of the city be expedited before the king and his council as the courts have not assembled for many reasons and their business has still not been heard.[The petition contains the full text of a writ ordering the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to summon justices and other members of the council before them to consider the matter and to supersede any orders for the levying of amercements].1)
- Nature of endorsement
- They should have a writ sicut alias mutatis mutandis.2) Coram magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- London
- York.
- People mentioned
- Edward II, King of England
- John de Cherleton (Charlton)
- Roger le Palmere (Palmer).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another copy of the earlier petition mentioned here, see SC 8/324/E642
For transcript, see no.55 of PRO 31/7/100
For the earlier petition mentioned here, see SC 8/59/2927
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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 4903
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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 and Latin
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.31 (Latin summary of earlier petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150666/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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