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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Scarborough. King and council. The burgesses show that they have complained...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/584
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This record is about the Burgesses of Scarborough. King and council. The burgesses show that they have complained... dating from [1338] 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 8/12/584
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Scarborough.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses show that they have complained at many parliaments that certain people were accustomed to hold diverse tenements in the town rendering rents to the burgesses in aid of their farm to the king, which tenements have now been destroyed by the sea and are of no value. Following an inquest and the issuing of a writ ordering those who were accustomed to hold those tenements to come and protect them from the sea or answer to the king why they have not done so. The time allocated for this has now passed and no one came so the burgesses request that the king order a remedy so that the remainder of the town is not destroyed by the sea by default of aid.
- Nature of endorsement
- The response appears on the schedule sewn to this bill.
- Places mentioned
- Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The Hale transcript in Rot. Parl. makes this part of a series of petitions in parliament for 11 Edw. III (1338) (Rot. Parl., vol II, p.97).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the response formerly sewn to this petition see SC 8/12/583
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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 7184
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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), pp.97b-98a (no.2) (full edition of a later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060723/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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