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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mariners of the realm. King and other nobles and commons of parliament. The mariners...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1007
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This record is about the Mariners of the realm. King and other nobles and commons of parliament. The mariners... dating from [? 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 8/21/1007
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mariners of the realm.
- Addressees
- King and other nobles and commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The mariners of the realm of England state that they have laboured long in the king's service, on sea and elsewhere, and are completely ruined. They request that their wages be increased, as they have hitherto had only 3d. a day and 6d. a week, and cannot survive on that.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king, on the advice of his great council, will do what seems to him is to be done.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III p.253a (no. 1) edits this petition as being from 11 Richard II (1387-1388). A note on the guard reads, '? 1377, cf. Rot. Parl. III, 66'. It is hard to see why this should date it to 1377. Rot. Parl. vol. III 66a is from the roll of the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter, 2 Richard II (1379). This might be an enrolment of the present original petition, as it petitions both for mariners and for ship-owners (see also SC 8/21/1008). On the other hand, the endorsements are not the same, and the mariners here earn 3d. a day, rather than 4d. as in Rot. Parl. vol. III 66a.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition from mariners, see SC 8/21/1008
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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 5525
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.253a (no. 1) (full edition of original petition) & p.66 (transcription of related common petition on behalf of mariners on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061167/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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