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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the vill of Weobley in the county of Hereford. Council. The people show...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/614
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This record is about the People of the vill of Weobley in the county of Hereford. Council. The people show... dating from [1348] 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 8/13/614
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the vill of Weobley in the county of Hereford.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The people show that they have paid to the king the tax of the fifteenth, and wool amounting to three fifteenth as other vills of the county have done by which they are greatly impoverished. Nevertheless a writ came to levy £10 for hobblers though they are not a city or borough, to their ruin. They request that a remedy is ordained for this mischief otherwise they cannot live, and are agreed that they will leave the vill.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Weobley, Herefordshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 32.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an almost identical petition from Ledbury (Herefordshire) see SC 8/13/615
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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 8778
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.182a-b (no.29) (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. 32 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060753/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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