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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 vill of Marshfield. King. The vill has been charged for a long time...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/643
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This record is about the People of the vill of Marshfield. King. The vill has been charged for a long time... 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 8/13/643
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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 vill of Marshfield.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The vill has been charged for a long time by a false return for the fifteenth from their goods and chattels whereof the great part of the tenants are leaving their tenements because of the collections of the fifteenth and wool granted to the king, that those who remain have been put to such a great hardship that they have nothing to live on. They request that they be newly assessed for a sum that they are able to endure, having regard that the vill has been burnt four times in six years.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Marshfield, [Gloucestershire].
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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. 62.
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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 5582
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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.60) (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. 62 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060782/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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