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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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Mayor, aldermen and commons of the city of London. King and council. The petitioners...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/205/10232
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This record is about the Mayor, aldermen and commons of the city of London. King and council. The petitioners... dating from [1376] 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 8/205/10232
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, aldermen and commons of the city of London.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners complain of their impoverishment as a result of the rights enjoyed by strangers to buy and sell freely in the city of London, and request restriction of those rights.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Illegible.]
- Places mentioned
- London
- Westminster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in PROME, parliament of 1376, Appendix no. 8.
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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 III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.389 (resulting grant)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.347 (version of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1376, item 143 (enrolment of petition on parliament roll) & parliament of 1376, Appendix no. 8 (summary of petition and references) & parliament of January 1377, item 33 (further petition on the same matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333787/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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