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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor, sheriff and good people of the town of Bristol. Council. [The petition has...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/267/13301
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This record is about the Mayor, sheriff and good people of the town of Bristol. Council. [The petition has... dating from [1379] 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 8/267/13301
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, sheriff and good people of the town of Bristol.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- [The petition has suffered some damage and staining and the request is not fully recoverable:]Request by the mayor, sheriff and people concerning the arrest at Plymouth of a ship bought by Colston and Danyel in Lisbon and used to ship goods of other Bristol merchants back to Bristol.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the mayor and bailiffs of Plymouth to put . . . the Portuguese arrested there, and that they . . . to go as friends and with the goodwill of the king . . . shows to be friends as this certification purports.
- Places mentioned
- Bristol
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Plymouth, [Devon].
- People mentioned
- John Colston, merchant of Bristol
- Thomas Danyel, merchant of Bristol.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1379 as an order was sent to the mayor and bailiffs of Plymouth on 28 August 1379 (CCR 1377-81, p.268).
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.268 (order to the mayor and bailiffs of Plymouth on this matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517248/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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