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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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None. King and council. A remedy is requested as formerly in London bakers who broke...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8590
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This record is about the None. King and council. A remedy is requested as formerly in London bakers who broke... dating from [c. 1318] 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 8/172/8590
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- None.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- A remedy is requested as formerly in London bakers who broke the assize of bread were punished by being drawn through the 4 streets of the city on a hurdle, but now those attainted of breaking the assise get their servant [garson] to take the penance in their place so that they are not punished and are considered one of the greater bakers for this, and this is suffered by the mayor and bailiffs for a great redemption.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the mayor, alderman and sheriffs of London that they keep under pain of forfeiture the statute and provisions made by the king's father for the punishment of bakers, so that the greater bakers sustain their penance.
- Places mentioned
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1318 on the basis of a counter petition by the bakers of London which was submitted to the Michaelmas parliament of 1318 (12 Edw. II) (Docs. Illus. English History, p.37).
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.37 (for a petition of the bakers of London for a mitigation of the punishment)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294456/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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