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Community of Northumberland. Council and lords of parliament. The community of Northumberland...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/19/916

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SC 8/19/916
Date
[c. 1380]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Northumberland.
Addressees
Council and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
The community of Northumberland state that as they are on the border with Scotland, part of the country is laid waste by the Scots, and they are killed, imprisoned, put to ransom and suffer other ills at their hands. They request that a remedy be ordained for this before the departure of the lords, or it seems to them that they will be unable to pay any charge this time, like others who live peacefully elsewhere in the realm.
Nature of endorsement
The supplicants, on the advice of the Wardens of the march there, are to have the remedy that seems best to them, and agrees with good faith and reason, put in writing, and are to have it shown to the lords for them to be advised on it.
Places mentioned
Northumberland
Scotland.
Note
CCR 1377-81 pp.284-285 is dated at Westminster, 16 February 1380.CCR 1377-81 p.449 is dated at Westminster, 14 May 1381. On the basis of these references, a note on the guard dates this petition to 'c. 1380'. Fraser dates it more specifically to 1379, possibly following Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.69b (no.3), which assigns it to the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (1379) - but some of the surrounding petitions can be dated to other years and a more general date is a safer option.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6048
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.221 (no.198) (calendar of petition with full edition of endorsement)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), pp.284-285 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer not to charge Thomas Surteys and Alexander de Surteys, late sheriffs of Northumberland with rents, farms and other revenues from the county, on account of Scottish depredations); p.449 (order to give clergy of Northumberland respite from last subsidy, on account of Scottish depredations)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.69b (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061071/

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