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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Caernarfon. King and council. The burgesses of Caernarfon request the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13107
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This record is about the Burgesses of Caernarfon. King and council. The burgesses of Caernarfon request the... dating from [1328] 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 8/263/13107
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Caernarfon.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Caernarfon request the fee farm of their town with the mills and the gorz within the town franchise to render yearly as at present, with a yearly increase of 16s.
- Nature of endorsement
- Writ to the justice of Wales returnable to the Chancery of England.
- Places mentioned
- Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
- Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Rees to 1328.
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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.443-444 (translation of petition with references)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.16b (no.11) (edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.13-30, no.11 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517051/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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