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Burgesses of Harlech. King and council. The burgesses request the grant of two fairs,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/161/8001
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This record is about the Burgesses of Harlech. King and council. The burgesses request the grant of two fairs,... dating from [1328] 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 8/161/8001
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Harlech.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request the grant of two fairs, one at Corpus Christi, and one on the Thursday after Trinity for the profit of the king, castle and burgesses, as the town is sited on a rock and they accrue no profit.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be sent to the justice of Wales to enquire whether it is to the loss concerning the matters contained in the petition returnable into Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Harlech, [Merioneth, Wales]
- North Wales
- Ardudwy cantref, [Merioneth, Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1328 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 2 Edw. III (1328) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, pp.28a-9b (no.53)).
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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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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.271 (full summary of petition
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.28b-9ba (no.53) (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. 13-30, no. 53 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293844/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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