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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 Wigan. King and council. The people request that the king will grant and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E225
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This record is about the People of Wigan. King and council. The people request that the king will grant and... dating from [1302] 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 8/316/E225
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Wigan.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request that the king will grant and command that they are able to have their franchises which were lost before Cressingham in the last eyre. They were granted the liberties by the king's father, but the present king granted them to the earl of Lancaster and he promised to restore them.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let Cressingham's rolls be examined at the Exchequer and the liberties and the reason for their taking should be considered, and it is to be done if it is to the king's profit.
- Places mentioned
- Wigan, [Lancashire]
- Lancashire.
- People mentioned
- Hugh de Cressingham
- Edmund [Crouchback], Earl of Lancaster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
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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)
- 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529277/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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