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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Bridgwater. King and council. The burgesses state that they were assessed...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/642
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This record is about the Burgesses of Bridgwater. King and council. The burgesses state that they were assessed... 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 8/13/642
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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
- Burgesses of Bridgwater.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses state that they were assessed before the abbot and Inge, which sum they have paid at every fifteenth that has since been levied by which a great part of the town is impoverished and has nothing to live on, and the town is on the point of being lost forever.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Bridgwater, [Somerset]
- Forde, [Dorset].
- People mentioned
- [John Wrottesley], abbot of Forde
- John Ynge (Inge).
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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. 64.
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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 1185
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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.62) (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. 64 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060781/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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