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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor, Burgesses and Commons of Nottingham, and the commons of Nottinghamshire. King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6425
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This record is about the Mayor, Burgesses and Commons of Nottingham, and the commons of Nottinghamshire. King... dating from [c. 1376] 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 8/129/6425
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1376]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, Burgesses and Commons of Nottingham, and the commons of Nottinghamshire.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire make two separate requests.1) The Mayor and burgesses of Nottingham request that the Mayor be allowed to take any empty burgages in the town into his hands, as a number of burgages are empty and ruinous, and cannot contribute to the fee farm of the town, which is greatly impoverishing the burgesses.2) The Commons of Nottinghamshire and the mayor and commons of Nottingham request the appointment of two wardens to oversee the maintenance of the bridge at Trent Bridge and the causeway between Trent Bridge and Town Bridge.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
- Nottinghamshire
- Heibethbrigg (Trent Bridge), [Nottingham, Nottinghamshire]
- River Trent
- Town Bridge, [Nottingham, Nottinghamshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A petition concerning the condition of the bridge at Trent Bridge was presented to the parliament of 1376. This is clearly not that petition, but presumably it was presented to another parliament around this time.
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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 6056
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.350a (enrolment of similar petition regarding the condition of the bridge)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208604/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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