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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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Burgesses of Derby. King and council. The burgesses show that the town was assessed...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/644
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This record is about the Burgesses of Derby. King and council. The burgesses show that the town was 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 8/13/644
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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 Derby.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses show that the town was assessed for the tenth and fifteenth granted to the king in his sixth year which they have paid at each grant of the tax, but which they can no longer endure without being destroyed or leaving the town. Many, since the grant in the sixth year, have died or left the town so that the charge lies on those that remain, who will be ruined without remedy. They request that an enquiry is made of the truth, and that they be taxed according to the true value of their goods and chattels in their hands.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Derby, [Derbyshire]
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
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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. 65.
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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 2643
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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.190a (no.63) (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. 65 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060783/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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