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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and community of Melcombe. King. The mayor and community of Melcombe state...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/19/922
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This record is about the Mayor and community of Melcombe. King. The mayor and community of Melcombe state... dating from [1378-1379] 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 8/19/922
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1378-1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and community of Melcombe.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The mayor and community of Melcombe state that their town, which is held of the king as of his crown, was recently burnt down and completely destroyed by enemies suddenly coming into the country, so that no-one can now live there; they request that they might enclose the town and have pavage and murage and other customs like the people of Southampton, and also that they might be quit of the prise of wines as the people of London are, and also of the farm of the town and all other taxes for a certain time, until the town is rebuilt.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Melcombe (Melcombe Regis), [Dorset]
- Southampton, [Hampshire]
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.70b (no. 7) assigns this petition to the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (1379), but, as CCR 1377-81 p.223 is dated at Westminster, 12 December 1378, and is said to be 'upon petition of the mayor and commonalty of Melcombe' it is possible that this petition was presented in 1378, perhaps at the parliament held at Gloucester on the Wednesday after the feast of St Luke, 2 Richard II (1378).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A duplicate petition is SC 8/19/923
A near duplicate petition is SC 8/19/924
A related petition is SC 8/125/6206
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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 5460
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.223 (order to Treasurer and Barons of Exchequer to stay the levy of the tenths and fifteenths from Melcombe until Michaelmas next, in consideration of the burning of the town)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.70b (no.7) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061077/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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