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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Citizens of York. King. The citizens request that the king will bring the matter...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E722
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This record is about the Citizens of York. King. The citizens request that the king will bring the matter... dating from [1305] 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 8/326/E722
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Citizens of York.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The citizens request that the king will bring the matter of the debts owed from the time of King Henry be brought before the council, and they will do their will. The citizens paid the debt in the time of King Henry, of which the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer have writs to certify the king and council at the next parliament, and it is now that parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- A search is being made in the Exchequer but is not yet complete, and let them sue in the same place, and let justice be done to them.
- Places mentioned
- York.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition seems likely to date to the Autumn parliament of 1305 as an earlier petition to the Lent parliament seems to be that that initiated the enquiry by the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer mentioned in this petition (Rot. Parl., vol. I, p. 165a (no.56)).
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.165a (no. 56) (Latin summary of earlier petition on the same matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682717/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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