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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Bailiffs and community of Tamworth. King and council. The bailiffs and community...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10721
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This record is about the Bailiffs and community of Tamworth. King and council. The bailiffs and community... dating from [c. 1392] 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 8/215/10721
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1392]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bailiffs and community of Tamworth.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The bailiffs and community of both halves of Tamworth, one in Warwickshire held of the King and the other in Staffordshire held of the Earl of Pembroke, request remedy because grievous dissension has arisen between them and the tenants of Walsall on account of the levying of toll and other profits of a market which the petitioners hold at Tamworth every Saturday. The tenants of Walsall have attacked the petitioners' houses, come to the market with force and arms and beaten and wounded some people, and threatened them so severely that the petitioners fear to ask for the tolls and profits from the people of Walsall.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Tamworth, Staffordshire
- Tamworth, Warwickshire
- Walsall, Staffordshire.
- People mentioned
- Earl of Pembroke
- tenants of Walsall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1392, with reference to CPR 1391-6, p. 40, a 1392 commission in response to this petition.
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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, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.40 (commission in response to this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334277/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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