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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Stoke, Eastoke, North Hayling, Mengham, West Town and Hayling. King. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1115
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/23/1115
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1406-1407]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Stoke, Eastoke, North Hayling, Mengham, West Town and Hayling.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The people of Stoke, Eastoke, North Hayling, Mengham, West Town and Hayling, on Hayling Island, state that as much of the land of their island had been lost or ruined by the sea, the amount they had to pay for the fifteenths was greatly reduced by Edward III and Richard II, and Henry IV, in the third year of his reign, granted that at each fifteenth or half fifteenth in the following five years, they would pay only £6 15s. 7d. farthing. As they have become even poorer, they request that the king might continue to allow them to pay this sum for each fifteenth, and half of it for each half-fifteenth, and so on in proportion.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king, on the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament has granted this petition, in accordance with its contents.
- Places mentioned
- Stoke, Hampshire
- Eastoke, Hampshire
- Northwode (North Hayling), Hampshire
- Mengham, Hampshire
- Weston (West Town), Hampshire
- Hayling, Hampshire
- Hayling Island, Hampshire.
- People mentioned
- Edward [III], King of England
- Richard [II], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.620a-b is enrolled on the roll of the parliament of October 1407 (9 Henry IV), and CCR 1405-9 p.358 is dated at Gloucester, 20 November 1407, and is the result of this petition. However, it is made clear there that the original petition was presented to the parliament of March 1406 (7 Henry IV), and that letters patent were granted as a result (CPR 1405-8 p.159, dated at Westminster, 12 March 1406), but that these were invalidated as a result of a later decision at that parliament to annul all grants made during that parliament, with a few exceptions: hence the new grant in 1407. This petition is identical with what is on Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.620a-b, but that might just be a copy of the 1406 petition.A later note on the dorse, saying 'petitiones anno VI Henrici IV' seems to be quite incorrect.
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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 7471
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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, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1409, (Public Record Office, 1931), p.358 (order to Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer not to charge the people of Hayling Island with more than the sum mentioned in the petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.159 (grant to the people of Hayling Island in accordance with the terms of this petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.620a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll as common petition: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061282/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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