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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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Tenants of Carmarthen. King and council. The tenants of Carmarthen, who hold the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/311/15526
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This record is about the Tenants of Carmarthen. King and council. The tenants of Carmarthen, who hold the... dating from [c. 1336] 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 8/311/15526
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1336]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tenants of Carmarthen.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The tenants of Carmarthen, who hold the town of the King at fee farm, request that the goods and chattels which Hereford had on the day he died be arrested until the town's fee farm has been levied from them, because when he was bailiff Hereford never rendered account for the town's farm.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Partly illegible] The justice of Wales should be ordered to call before him ... to arrest the said goods ... the said John of the said farm before levying from the said goods as much as they can levy to the said ... farm at the Exchequer as they ...
- Places mentioned
- Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Wales.
- People mentioned
- John de Hereford, late bailiff of Carmarthen.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1336 since it refers to Hereford as deceased (CFR 1327-37, p. 482).
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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)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.482 (order to take lands late of Hereford into the King's hand)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682536/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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