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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commonalty and free people of the cantref of Arfon. King. The commonalty request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/154/7679
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This record is about the Commonalty and free people of the cantref of Arfon. King. The commonalty request... dating from [? c. 1305] 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 8/154/7679
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty and free people of the cantref of Arfon.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty request remedy as the burgesses cut their woods without licence and . . . as without remedy they will be unable to pay their farm.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the justice that he call the parties before him, hear their arguments, and do right to them, always having regard to the ordinances, if any were made by the king on such things.
- Places mentioned
- Arfon cantref, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
- Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- Burgesses of Caernarfon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? c. 1305 on the basis of the dating provided by Rees who considers it to be dated closely to complaints made at Kennington in 1305 (Petitions Relating to Wales, p.256).
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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)
- 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)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.256 (full summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209868/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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