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People of the county of Cumberland of the vills that were burnt and destroyed. King....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/594

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Reference
SC 8/12/594
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
People of the county of Cumberland of the vills that were burnt and destroyed.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people state that following their suit before the king's council a commission was issued to enquire of which vills were burnt and destroyed by the Scots, and pardon them of their biennial tax granted for 1346. The inquests being taken and returned into Chancery it was found that many vills were so burned, and the people request that the king grant his letters under the privy seal to the chancellor ordering him to make writs to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer discharging the collectors and the men of the vills which were returned into Chancery as being so burnt and destroyed.
Nature of endorsement
Coram ipso rege.
Places mentioned
Cumberland.
People mentioned
Thomas de Lucy.
Note
Probably presented in the parliament of March-April 1348: see summary of references in PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 9.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1361
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1346-1349, (Public Record Office, 1905), pp.448-9 (order to the taxers collectors to supersede the demand for the 10th and 15th)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1345-1348, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.105-6,301 (commissions to enquire of the status of the vills in Cumberland)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.106-7 (no.73) (calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.176a (no.5) (full edition of a later copy 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix no. 9 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060733/

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