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Tenants of the town of Tamworth. King. The tenants state that the town, church and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/641

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Reference
SC 8/13/641
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
Tenants of the town of Tamworth.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The tenants state that the town, church and their goods and chattels were destroyed by fire so that the greater part of the people of the commonalty of the town are beggars. However the taxers and collectors of the fifteenth, tenth and wool will have no regard for their predicament and demand the sum that they ought to have paid before the fire, which they are in no situation to pay. They request that they by taxed on the quantity of their goods that they have now and in times to come, and not on the sum from before the fire, and that the king order the chancellor to make a commission or writs to the taxers on this matter and also to the barons of the Exchequer that they make allowance to them for the time of the fire on 23 May 1345, and for times to come.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.
Places mentioned
Tamworth, [Staffordshire].
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. 61. A writ of 1345 may relate to an earlier petition on the matter (CCR 1343-6, p.605).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7983
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1343-1346, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.605 (earlier writ to the taxers and collectors to reassess the tax on Tamworth)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.189b (no.59) (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. 61 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060780/

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