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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Norwich. [Not specified]. The burgesses request remedy if Rochester...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/307/15326
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This record is about the Burgesses of Norwich. [Not specified]. The burgesses request remedy if Rochester... dating from [1276] 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 8/307/15326
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1276]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Norwich.
- Addressees
- [Not specified].
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request remedy if Rochester and his clerk are allowed to enter in their rolls that a great road in Norwich called 'Newegate' is in Blofield Hundred at the request of the prior and convent, as the same pertains to the city.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face:]Nothing because it is concluded.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Norwich, [Norfolk]
- Blofield hundred, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- Prior and convent of Norwich
- Solomon de Roff' (Rochester)
- Robert de Preston, clerk of Solomon de Rochester
- Gilbert de Preston.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1276 since this is when the disturbances between the burgesses of Norwich and the prior and convent there were alleviated by the order to erect gates towards the water of Norwich and a bridge over the water (CPR 1272-81, p. 157; CCR 1272-9, p. 217 and p. 300).
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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 Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1279, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.217 (King's dictum on peace treaty between petitioners and prior and convent of Norwich) & p.300 (grant to prior and convent to build gates and a bridge over the water of Norwich)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.157 (licence for prior and convent of Norwich to erect gates towards the water of Norwich and a bridge)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518381/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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