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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the burgesses of Carmarthen, making...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/236/11797
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the burgesses of Carmarthen, making... dating from [1280] 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 8/236/11797
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1280]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to Edward I from the burgesses of Carmarthen, making three requests:1) They thank him for asking his brother to give them grace of the £100 in which they are amerced to him for a trespass committed by them, of which have paid 50 marks, and ask him to remember that they are greatly impoverished by this, and that the King's brother has agreed to do his will.2) They request a letter of warranty for the murage the King granted to them at Lyndhurst.3) They ask him to order his justice of West Wales to maintain them in the laws and usages in which they were maintained in his time and in the time of his ancestors, and according to the tenor of their charter.
- Nature of endorsement
- To the noble King of England.
- Places mentioned
- Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Lyndhurst, [Hampshire]
- Wales.
- People mentioned
- [Edward I], King of England
- burgesses of Carmarthen
- Edmund [Crouchback], Earl of Lancaster.
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.392-393 (translation of letter)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.371 (grant of murage for eight years to the good men of Carmarthen)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335357/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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