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People of the town of Arundel. King and council. The people show that in the twelfth...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/625

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Reference
SC 8/13/625
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
People of the town of Arundel.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people show that in the twelfth year of Edward III their town was burnt and destroyed, and thereafter by a writ of the king their moveable goods were re-assessed, and they paid this sum. The town was again burnt in the eighteenth year of Edward III, but the assessors would not consider this and levied the sum assessed before the first fire so that they are impoverished and ruined. They request that the king and his council have regard for their great loss and mischief and grant them a writ to the assessors that they receive from the people the same sum that they were assessed at in the last tax, and grant them a patent that in case a new tenth is granted following the octave that the sum assessed in the last tax be levied from the people of the town, and that they are not during that term charged otherwise for the tax.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Arundel, [Sussex].
Note
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. 48.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 85
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.185b-186a (no.45) (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. 48 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060764/

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