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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Tenants of Hungerford. King and council. The tenants show that they have always been...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/640
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This record is about the Tenants of Hungerford. King and council. The tenants show that they have always been... 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 8/13/640
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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
- Tenants of Hungerford.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The tenants show that they have always been so grievously taxed for the fifteenth that many of them have abandoned their land, and have nothing to live on. They request that they are only taxed according to the quantity of their goods and not otherwise or they will be utterly destroyed.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Hungerford, [Berkshire].
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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. 63.
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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 4117
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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.189b (no.61) (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. 63 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060779/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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