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Bailiffs, people and commonalty of Shrewsbury. King. The bailiffs, people and commonalty...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/252/12585
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This record is about the Bailiffs, people and commonalty of Shrewsbury. King. The bailiffs, people and commonalty... dating from [1396] 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 8/252/12585
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1396]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bailiffs, people and commonalty of Shrewsbury.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The bailiffs, people and commonalty request that it be granted to them that if they are arrested and distrained in diverse lordships of Wales, as they have been of recent against statute as they are not debtors, sureties or trespassers, that if delivery is not made of the goods on request of the bailiffs of Shrewsbury then they may arrest and distrain on those coming to the town from those parts of Wales. They request the right to be able to arrest people in pleas of debt, trespass and personal contracts as other towns have. They request the king's letters to the ministers of several lordships along the Severn river to deliver their goods which were distrained.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face:]This petition is granted by the king.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Shrewsbury, [Shropshire]
- Wales
- London
- Bristol
- Hereford, [Herefordshire]
- River Severn
- Monmouth, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
- Chepstow, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
- Bewdley, Worcestershire
- Minsterworth, Gloucestershire
- Done (Duni), [Gloucestershire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1396 as the request was granted on 7 February 1396 (CPR 1391-6, p.663).
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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.421-422 (calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.663 (grant of the right of distraint)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440192/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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