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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Former Mayor and community of Melcombe Regis. King and council. [This petition is...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/236/11784
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This record is about the Former Mayor and community of Melcombe Regis. King and council. [This petition is... dating from [c. 1379] 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 8/236/11784
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Former Mayor and community of Melcombe Regis.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly faded.]The former Mayor and community of Melcombe Regis state that they have been burnt and destroyed by the sudden arrival of [enemies], so that no-one is now living in the town, which is held of the King as of his crown. They ask that they might be able to enclose their town at their own costs, and also that the King might grant them a supersedeas until Michaelmas of the fifteenth lately granted.
- Nature of endorsement
- With regard to the first article, they were answered in parliament that the King is not advised to grant it.And with regard to the second article, the supplicants are to have the supersedeas requested here until next Michaelmas.
- Places mentioned
- Melcombe Regis, [Dorset].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition printed in Rot. Parl, vol. III, p. 70b may be the earlier petition referred to as having been answered in parliament, in which case the present petition presumably dates from shortly after 1379.
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.70b (another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335343/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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