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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Community of North Wales. King and council. [This petition is damaged and partially...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/202/10083
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This record is about the Community of North Wales. King and council. [This petition is damaged and partially... dating from [? c. 1315-? c. 1325] 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 8/202/10083
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1315-? c. 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Community of North Wales.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is damaged and partially illegible.]The community of North Wales complain that the King has granted bailiwicks in North Wales to people who have then re-granted them to others for more than they are reasonably worth, and that these people then obtain their farms through extortion and oppression. They ask that those [who are not] occupied in the King's service [might attend to their bailiwicks themselves].
- Nature of endorsement
- The Justice is to be ordered to have all tenants of the King's said bailiwicks remain in their bailiwicks and do what pertains to them unless they are occupied in the King's service, or can show that they are permitted to appoint deputies by the grant that they have for their bailiwicks.
- Places mentioned
- North Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1322 or c. 1330-1331 by Petitions Relating to Wales pp.342-3. The evidence for this dating seems sketchy, and, although it accords with the French endorsement, the hand looks as though it might be earlier. I have therefore dated it roughly to between 1315 and 1325, on the basis of the hand.
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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.342-343 (partial transcription of petition and partial calendar of endorsement)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333638/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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