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Burgesses of the town of St Albans. King and council. The burgesses request remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8472
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This record is about the Burgesses of the town of St Albans. King and council. The burgesses request remedy... dating from [1315] 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 8/170/8472
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of the town of St Albans.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request remedy as the abbot holds the town in chief of the king and owes the service of finding two burgesses to attend parliament, but this is of recent withdrawn in contempt of the king and to the burgesses damage.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the rolls of Chancery be examined to see if the burgesses are summoned or not, and if so let justice be done to them.
- Places mentioned
- St Albans, [Hertfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of St Albans.
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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 Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.327b-328a (no.195) (Latin translation of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294321/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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