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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 and people of St Albans. King. [The petition has suffered some damage to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/325/E684
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This record is about the Burgesses and people of St Albans. King. [The petition has suffered some damage to... dating from [c. 1297] 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 8/325/E684
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses and people of St Albans.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [The petition has suffered some damage to its lower left-hand side, and the full sense of the petition is difficult to discern].The burgesses and people state that the abbot is attempting to appropriate to his liberty things that are regarded to the common profit, and to the easement of the burgesses as well as the abbot by his grievances that he has made to them and by pleas of conspiracy, for which he is impeached by them of his liberties. The abbot has impleaded them of conspiracy and they request the king's commandment by writ [...] for the king's estate and their common profit.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- St Albans, [Hertfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of St Albans.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1297 as the complaints made by the abbot of St Albans date to July and November 1297 (CPR 1292-1301, pp. 316, 320).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.316, 320 (commissions on complaint of the abbot that men of the town usurp his liberties)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682678/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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