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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Beaumaris. King and council. The burgesses of Beaumaris request that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/279/13936
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This record is about the Burgesses of Beaumaris. King and council. The burgesses of Beaumaris request that... dating from [c. 1330-c. 1331] 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 8/279/13936
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330-c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Beaumaris.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Beaumaris request that whereas the Welsh people of the county of Anglesey sell and buy and hold their markets amongst themselves, and refuse to recognise the market of Beaumaris to the loss of the King and the petitioners, that such sales outside the town be forbidden and the market held at Beaumaris as is the custom.
- Nature of endorsement
- The justice should be ordered that the men of Anglesey are not to have a market elsewhere [but] shall come with their goods and things to the same market.
- Places mentioned
- Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales]
- Anglesey, [Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Rees to c. 1330-1.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Royal letters 4145.
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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), p.469 (full translation of petition with references)
- The Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia, E.A. Lewis, (, 1912), p.297 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517884/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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