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Mayor and community of Melcombe. King. The mayor and community of Melcombe state...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/19/924

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Reference
SC 8/19/924
Date
[1378-1379]
Description
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 at their own expense 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.
Note
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).
Related material

A near duplicate petition is SC 8/19/923

A related petition is SC 8/125/6206

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5455
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • 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 near duplicate petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061079/

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