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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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People of the county of Dorset. King. The community of the county of Dorset request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/271/13547
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This record is about the People of the county of Dorset. King. The community of the county of Dorset request... dating from [1305] 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 8/271/13547
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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
- People of the county of Dorset.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The community of the county of Dorset request that they can erect a gaol at their own cost in the town of Dorchester because the gaol serving their county is in Somerton in Somerset thirty leagues out of their county and the men of their county fail to indict felons and conceal murders, robberies and other felonies because of the distance they are required to transport prisoners and the expenses of travel for gaol deliveries and the danger of escapes.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should have a writ of Chancery that they should erect a gaol in Dorchester at the cost of the whole county.
- Places mentioned
- Dorset
- Somerton, Somerset
- Dorchester, [Dorset].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1305 as the grant of the request was made on 12 March 1305 (CPR 1301-7, p.317).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.317 (resulting grant of permission)
- 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), 1305, Lent parliament, appendix, English petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.3 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517494/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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