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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor, jurats and community of Dax. King and council. The Mayor, jurats and community...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/239/11928
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/239/11928
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1351]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, jurats and community of Dax.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor, jurats and community of Dax state that their city is greatly depopulated by war and pestilence, and ask that the people of the adjoining parishes of St Vincent and St Paul might contribute to the guard, aid and defence of Dax, and that they might be excused from contributing to any other aid, and from going on any expeditions except with the Mayor and community of Dax, and that they might be sworn to them. They also ask that they might have first cognisance over these parishes, and courts and jurisdiction for all manner of demands and trespasses, except the execution of high justice which belongs to the King; saving the rights of the lords from whom they hold.
- Nature of endorsement
- What is requested in this petition pleases the King, provided that this is not to the prejudice of the other lords, and that it is done with the assent of the parishioners of the said towns named here.
- Places mentioned
- Dax, Gascony, [France]
- St-Vincent-de-Xaintes, [Gascony, France]
- St-Paul-les-Dax, [Gascony, France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Enclosed with no.21315 of C 81/349, which is dated 24 February 25 Edward III (1351).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a mandate to the Chancellor to give the petitioners the appropriate letters and writs under the Great Seal, see no.21315 of C 81/349
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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)
- Catalogue des rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois, vol. I, ed. T. Carte, (, 1743), p.126 (brief calendar of requested grant)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335492/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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