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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses and farmers of the vill of Retford. King and council. The burgesses and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/161/8044
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This record is about the Burgesses and farmers of the vill of Retford. King and council. The burgesses and... 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 8/161/8044
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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 and farmers of the vill of Retford.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses and farmers request remedy as they are on the point of judgement in the eyre of Nottinghamshire by reason of the articles of the statute of York as this stipulates that no minister may hold merchandises when in office, and as they are a town dependent on trade and many of their bailiffs have been burgesses selling victuals, and their goods are forfeit.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the record and process be brought before the king and examined the causes and other things touching the business, and hear the reasons, and let justice be done.2) [Illegible].
- Places mentioned
- Retford, [Nottinghamshire].
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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 at Westminster in November 4 Edw. III (1330) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, pp.42a-b (no.54)).
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.43a-b (no.54) (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.54 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293888/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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