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Commons and Inhabitants of Salisbury. King and Council. The people of Salisbury request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6446

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This record is about the Commons and Inhabitants of Salisbury. King and Council. The people of Salisbury request... dating from [1377] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/129/6446
Date
[1377]
Description
Petitioners
Commons and Inhabitants of Salisbury.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The people of Salisbury request remedy, stating that people of their town have been forced by the officers of Clarendon Park to take up offices within the park against their will.
Nature of endorsement
The officers and ministers of the forest, or of the said park, have no power or authority outside the boundaries of the forest without commission or order of the king.
Places mentioned
Salisbury, [Wiltshire]
Clarendon Park, [Wiltshire].
Note
The resultant letters patent were issued on 12 December 1377. The edition of the petition in Rot. Parl. Vol. III is wrongly dated, but the edition of the letters patent, which also incorporates the text of the petition, is correctly dated.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6083
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.75 (calendar of resultant letters patent)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.254-5 (edition of petition, wrongly dated) & p.390 (full edition of resultant letters patent)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208625/

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