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Communities of the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire. King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/139/6906

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Reference
SC 8/139/6906
Date
[c. 1380]
Description
Petitioners
Communities of the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Complaint of violence and damage suffered at the hands of the people of Cheshire.
Nature of endorsement
[None.]
Places mentioned
Shropshire
Staffordshire
Derbyshire
Cheshire.
Note
Approximately datable by reference to another petition on the same matter in Rot. Parl., vol. III, p. 81.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/139/6922

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.81b (no. 30) (another petition on the same matter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209090/

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