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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicholas Wytty. Wytty Nicholas Council. Wytty requests a licence for his mainpernors...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7858
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This record is about the Nicholas Wytty. Wytty Nicholas Council. Wytty requests a licence for his mainpernors... dating from [1381] 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 8/158/7858
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1381]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas Wytty.
- Name(s)
- Wytty, Nicholas
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Wytty requests a licence for his mainpernors to buy sufficient corn in Norfolk and Suffolk and to charge a ship with it at Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn or Blakeney and take it to Edinburgh to secure his release, as he cannot be released without it.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].It is granted by the council.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Edinburgh, [Midlothian, Scotland]
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
- Blakeney, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- William Russell, mainpernor for the petitioner
- John Wodeburn, mainpernor for the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1381 as a warrant was issued on the 7 March to allow the shipping of the corn (Rot. Scot., vol.II::p.35a).
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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)
- Rotuli Scotiae, vol. II, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1819), p.35a (warrant to allow the mainpernors to ship the corn to Scotland)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210050/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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