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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. [King and council] [This petition is damaged, and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/341/16068
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This record is about the Mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. [King and council] [This petition is damaged, and... dating from [1348] 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 8/341/16068
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and bailiffs of Bristol.
- Addressees
- [King and council]
- Nature of request
- [This petition is damaged, and the entire left-hand side is missing.] [The Mayor and] bailiffs of Bristol state that the king has granted by his letters [patent, for a term of six years, an aid to repair] the walls and quay of Bristol, to be taken from ships [bearing goods for sale, although such an aid has never been taken in the past.] At the suggestion of [Philip de Whitton, the king has granted him] the quayage of Bristol, with the profits arising from it, on the assumption that this is [a perpetual office], whereas it is not. The Mayor and [bailiffs ask that this grant might be repealed and annulled].
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Bristol.
- People mentioned
- [Philip de Whitton].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Edited in Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.212a-b (no. 27) among a group of petitions ascribed to the two parliaments of 1348.
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.212a-b (no.27) (full edition of later copy of this petition, with response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736549/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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