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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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Tenants of Penrith, Salkeld and Scotby. King and council. The tenants request grace...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/80
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This record is about the Tenants of Penrith, Salkeld and Scotby. King and council. The tenants request grace... dating from [c. 1315] 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 8/2/80
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tenants of Penrith, Salkeld and Scotby.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The tenants request grace and remedy for they have been disturbed by the king's ministers of the forest in their profit from taking firewood in the forest of Inglewood, wood knocked down by wind, and turfs in the turbary of their common pasture for which they have and still do render a farm.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be by a writ of Chancery in due form to the keeper of the forest beyond Trent that he do justice on the contents of this petition.
- Places mentioned
- Penrith, [Cumberland]
- Salkeld, [Cumberland]
- Scotby, [Cumberland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1315 by reference to the title in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.289, noting a related petition to be for the parliament held at Westminster in the octave of Hillary, 8 Edw. II, though the petition in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.313b (no. 100) is clearly not the same one as the extent one, it must closely date to it.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an earlier petition of the tenants of Penrith concerning Inglewood see SC 8/2/65
For a related petition see SC 8/164/8167
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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)
- Parliamentary Petition 6435
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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.313b (no. 100) (full transcription of a nearly identical petition on the parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060193/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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