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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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People of Carlisle. King and council. The people request a grant of murage to repair...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/204/10186
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This record is about the People of Carlisle. King and council. The people request a grant of murage to repair... dating from [1314-1336] 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 8/204/10186
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1314-1336]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Carlisle.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request a grant of murage to repair the walls of the town, to strengthen the wall with brattices, to re-cut the moat, and to maintain the gates and drawbridges.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Carlisle, [Cumberland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is given a date range of 1314-1336, but it has to date to one or the other of these dates as licences were granted for 3 and 5 years in these years (CPR 1313-17, p.93; CPR 1334-8, p.194). Unfortunately, it is not clear from the hand which is the more likely.
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.93 (grant of licence to Carlisle)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.194 (grant of licence to Carlisle)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.112 (no.78) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333741/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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