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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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Burgesses of Northampton. King and Council. [The text is stained and faded and all...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/310/15498
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This record is about the Burgesses of Northampton. King and Council. [The text is stained and faded and all... dating from [? 1318] 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 8/310/15498
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Northampton.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- [The text is stained and faded and all but a few isolated words are now illegible. However, it does mention merchants and seals.]
- Nature of endorsement
- [Largely illegible.]
- Places mentioned
- Northampton, [Northamptonshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition and endorsement are now both largely illegible. However, the parts of the endorsement which are legible would seem to match the response to the petition of the burgesses of Northampton recorded on the parliament roll for 1318 (Cole, Documents Illustrative of English History, pp.30-1). That petition requested the provision of a seal in order that the town could make recognisances according to the statute of merchants made at the Acton Burnel parliament in 1283. The response ordered the provision of such a seal.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also SC 8/323/E570 SC 1/35/198
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), pp.30-1 (summary of petition, with text of response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682508/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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