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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Citizens of York. King and council. The citizens of York request that they be discharged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13161
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/264/13161
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Citizens of York.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The citizens of York request that they be discharged forever of £8 4s 10d of the £102 12s 11d with which they are charged in the great roll of the Exchequer for the King's wines sold at York to the citizens by Dacre who received this money from them, as is acknowledged by a recognizance made by Kirkby before the barons of the Exchequer in Michaelmas term 44 Henry III [1260].
- Nature of endorsement
- The treasurer and barons of the Exchequer should be ordered by writ of Chancery to search the rolls to see if a recognizance was made as said and, if so, the citizens are to be exonerated from the money and Dacre is to be burdened with it.
- Places mentioned
- York.
- People mentioned
- Robert de Dacre, butler of Henry III
- Henry III, King of England
- Robert de Kyrkeby (Kirkby), attorney of Robert de Dacre.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1305, with reference to Memoranda de Parliamento, p. 97, no.168.
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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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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.97-98 (no.168) (edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.165a (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- 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), roll 12, appendix no.174 (edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517107/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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