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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons. King and lords in parliament. The petition states that, contrary the ordinances...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/197/9812
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/197/9812
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1447]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons.
- Addressees
- King and lords in parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petition states that, contrary the ordinances restricting the rights of Welshmen made in the parliaments of the second and fourth years of the King's grandfather, many Welshman have since then obtain office and been made burgesses of boroughs in Wales by falsely claiming to be English, and then use their position to allow other Welshmen to purchase lands or to become burgesses or acquire franchises in towns, who in turn make feoffments to other Welshmen, to allow them to serve on juries against Englishmen; to the great destruction of the English and peril to the King. It asks the King to ordain in parliament a penalty of £200 for any purchase or acquisition of any such liberty, franchise, lands, tenements or office within any royal franchise or lordship in Wales by a Welshman.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Delivered by the Chancellor, 19 February.][None on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Wales
- South Wales.
- People mentioned
- Henry [IV], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated with reference to SC 8/148/7356, also delivered by the Chancellor on 19 February. A later note on the dorse (probably seventeenth century) reads 'Petitio pro Wallensibus in parliamento 1 Henry VI'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition, see SC 8/113/5610
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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)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.328-9 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295700/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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