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Mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn. King and council. The mayor and burgesses request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/203/10146
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This record is about the Mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn. King and council. The mayor and burgesses request... dating from [1298-1299] 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 8/203/10146
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1298-1299]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and burgesses of King's Lynn.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The mayor and burgesses request that they be granted an oyer and terminer of trespasses made to the burgesses by the bishop of Norwich and his bailiffs concerning the making of ditches around the town, and they request Spigurnel and Ratford who are assigned to hear and determine the pleas of the bishop against them be assigned with others of the king's council.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) They should have justices John Buteturte, Robert Batford and Henry Spigurnel.
- Places mentioned
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- [Ralph Walpole], bishop of Norwich
- John Boutetourte (Buteturte), justice
- Robert Ratford, justice
- Henry Spigonel (Spigurnel), justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1298-1299 on the basis of a series of oyer and terminer commissions issued between 11 August 1298 and 18 February 1299, though it seems likely that one of the commissions issued on 28 November 1298 may be is response to the petition (CPR 1292-1301, pp.382, 458, 460).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.382 (commission of oyer and terminer to examine the injuries done by the mayor and bailiffs to the bishop) & p.458 (commissions of oyer and terminer on complaints by the mayor and burgesses, and by the bishop) & p.460 (commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by the bishop)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333701/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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