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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the royal shires and lordships in Wales. Commons of parliament. The petition...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/150/7497
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This record is about the People of the royal shires and lordships in Wales. Commons of parliament. The petition... dating from [1450] 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 8/150/7497
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the royal shires and lordships in Wales.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petition complains that in the royal shires and lordships of Wales and those of the Duchy of Lancaster in those parts, people, goods and chattels are taken under colour of distress by people who have no fee, lordship or reason to take such distresses, and that they are taken into other parts of England or Wales, and that this leads to violence and lawlessness. They ask that this might in future be considered as felony, and punished as such.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let it be delivered to the lords.[On dorse] The King wills it, to last for five years.
- Places mentioned
- Wales
- Duchy of Lancaster.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/27/1341
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- English
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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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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.251 (calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.200a-b (no. iii) (full transcription of petition and response on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209682/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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