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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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 the town of Ipswich. King and council. The people show that they are impoverished...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/636
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This record is about the People of the town of Ipswich. King and council. The people show that they are impoverished... 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 8/13/636
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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 town of Ipswich.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people show that they are impoverished by the loss of ships, by judicial inquisitions by deceit, and by the great sum of the tenth that was assessed when the town was more prosperous and which they are unable now to endure. They request that the king order by his writ to the assessors and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in Suffolk to make a reasonable new assessment of their goods and chattels, and this new sum be levied for the use of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Gyppewys (Ipswich), [Suffolk].
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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. 58. Some of the people of Ipswich had been resisting the collection of the king's tax in February 1346 (CPR 1345-8, p.98).
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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 9167
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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.189a (no.56) (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. 58 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060775/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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