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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Bala. King. The burgesses of Bala show that of the £14 13s 3d charged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/182/9093
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This record is about the Burgesses of Bala. King. The burgesses of Bala show that of the £14 13s 3d charged... dating from [1507-1509] 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 8/182/9093
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1507-1509]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Bala.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Bala show that of the £14 13s 3d charged yearly for their fee farm, only £3 6d is due from their lands, the rest being raised from various customs and levies. The king has lately pardoned such levies within Merioneth, and therefore they request that either they be allowed to continue levying such customs as before, or that the residue of their fee farm be pardoned.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Long endorsement, now illegible.]
- Places mentioned
- Bala, [Merioneth, Wales]
- Merioneth, Wales
- Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The charter mentioned in the petition was granted on 3 March 1507, and thus the petition presumably dates to between that date and the death of Henry VII in 1509.
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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)
- English
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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.304 (list of references)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VII, vol. II, 1494-1509, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.534 (grant of liberties in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merioneth)
- The Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia, E.A. Lewis, (, 1912), p.299 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294970/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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