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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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Commonalty of the town of Dover. King and council. The commonalty request the king's...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/322/E542
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This record is about the Commonalty of the town of Dover. King and council. The commonalty request the king's... dating from [c. 1298] 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 8/322/E542
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1298]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of the town of Dover.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty request the king's aid and that he will join with them for his free chapel of St Martin as the archbishop has summoned certain persons of the town to his visitation though the archbishop has no jurisdiction there because of the liberties of the free chapel, and has excommunicated many of them and placed the town under an interdict.[The petition gives a considerable amount of detail about the removal of the free chapel from the castle for matters of security, for the replacement of the secular canons with regular, and for the provision of religious service in the parish church].
- Nature of endorsement
- They should have letters to the archbishop [...] the king assigns Master Thomas de Luggor.
- Places mentioned
- Dover, [Kent]
- Lyminge, [Kent]
- Flanders.
- People mentioned
- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Thomas de Luggor.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1298 as the petition makes mention of the king's time in Flanders, Edward I being there from August 1297 to March 1298.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529594/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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