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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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Poor men of Windsor. Council. The poor men of Windsor request pontage at Windsor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/280/13976
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This record is about the Poor men of Windsor. Council. The poor men of Windsor request pontage at Windsor... dating from [1307] 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 8/280/13976
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Poor men of Windsor.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The poor men of Windsor request pontage at Windsor for eight years to repair and rebuild the bridge of Windsor which has no rent or other income to maintain it and has had no assistance except from Queen Eleanor who had the bridge repaired a long time ago.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should have pontage for five years.
- Places mentioned
- Windsor, [Berkshire].
- People mentioned
- Eleanor [of Castile], Queen of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1307 since it is included on the Parliament Roll for this year (Rot. Parl. Vol. I, p. 193b).
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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 4646.
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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.495 (grant to petitioners of pontage for five years)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.193b (no.11) (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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.12 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517927/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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