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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Knights and esquires of Cumberland; Mayor and citizens of Carlisle. [Commons of parliament]...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/341/16084
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This record is about the Knights and esquires of Cumberland; Mayor and citizens of Carlisle. [Commons of parliament]... dating from [1435] 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 8/341/16084
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1435]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Knights and esquires of Cumberland; Mayor and citizens of Carlisle.
- Addressees
- [Commons of parliament]
- Nature of request
- [This petition is fragmentary and hard to read] The knights and esquires of Cumberland, with the Mayor and citizens of Carlisle, state that it was ordained by statute in the time of Richard II that sessions would be held by justices of the common assize and of gaol delivery throughout England, in the shire town of each shire; and so they were held in Carlisle. Now, however, they have been held in other places, to Carlisle's great peril and danger, both at the hands of the Scots, and through the escape of prisoners in the gaol there, as all the knights and esquires, and the Mayor and citizens, and all other free tenants, have to be at the assizes, wherever they are held. They ask the commons to ask the king, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, to grant and ordain by authority of the present parliament that the session should be held at Carlisle, the shire town, and nowhere else.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Cumberland
- Carlisle, [Cumberland]
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- Richard II, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is enrolled on the parliament roll for 1435 as a common petition (Rot. Parl. vol. IV, p.490b (no.111).
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.490b (no.111) (enrolment of petition on parliament roll as common petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736565/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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