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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Oxford. King and council. The burgesses request remedy as they were...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/160/7973
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This record is about the Burgesses of Oxford. King and council. The burgesses request remedy as they were... dating from [1330] 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 8/160/7973
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Oxford.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request remedy as they were granted the same liberties, laws and customs as the citizens of London by the king's progenitors, and they sell with them in London, but despite a confirmation by the king and orders to the mayor and sheriffs of London, they still disturb them in the enjoyment of their liberties.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should sue the process, and after the attachment before the king, and there they should have right.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1330 as copy of the original petition can be found amongst other petitions copied by Matthew Hale assigned to the parliament of November 1330 (Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.51a-b (no.83)).
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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)
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- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.131 (translation and discussion of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.51a-b (no. 83) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.83 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210165/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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