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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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Mayor, jurats, burgesses, one hundred peers and all the commonalty of the town of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/343/16176
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This record is about the Mayor, jurats, burgesses, one hundred peers and all the commonalty of the town of... dating from [1308] 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 8/343/16176
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1308]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, jurats, burgesses, one hundred peers and all the commonalty of the town of St Emilion.
- Addressees
- [Lost].
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged and is missing much of its left-hand side. The petitioners appear to be requesting that the king grant and confirm their liberties, and they seem to offer 50 tuns of white wine for this. Reference is made of the time of the war, and to the late king].
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- St Emilion, [Guyenne, France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1308 because the related entry in the Gascon Rolls is dated to 21 May (1 Edw. II) (C 61/24, m. 20).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the related entry in the Gascon Rolls, see m.20 in C 61/24
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 30 Oct. 1924).
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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)
- Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), pp.44-5 (no. 101) (printed edition of related entry in the Gascon Rolls)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736657/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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