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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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People of Great Yarmouth, Little Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Dunwich. King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/331
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This record is about the People of Great Yarmouth, Little Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Dunwich. King and council.... dating from [1321-1322] 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 8/7/331
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1321-1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Great Yarmouth, Little Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Dunwich.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Great Yarmouth; Little Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Dunwich state that they had granted the king their ships, at their own cost, to go to Scotland for eight weeks, and these ships are ready: but the king has now asked them to make ready all the other ships, at his wages, without consideration for fishing or anything else, and these ships, both fishing vessels and others, have been seized by John Perbroun, admiral of the fleet. They ask that the king inform them how many ships he wants, besides those previously granted, and they will be ready to go where he wishes, at his wages, or that he might give them permission to go about their business with their ships; otherwise they will be ruined.
- Nature of endorsement
- It pleases our lord the king to state how many ships he wishes to have, besides those which have been granted to him, so that the remainder can go to fish for their advantage and that of the realm.
- Places mentioned
- Graunt Jernemuth (Great Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
- Petit Gernemuth (Little Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
- Lenn (King's Lynn), [Norfolk]
- Donewytz (Dunwich), [Suffolk]
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- John Perebroun (Perbroun), admiral of the fleet.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
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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 8979
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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)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.414a, no. 156 (full edition of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 156 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060454/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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