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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses and men of Truro. Commons of parliament. The burgesses and men of Truro...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1119
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This record is about the Burgesses and men of Truro. Commons of parliament. The burgesses and men of Truro... dating from [1419-1421] 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 8/23/1119
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1419-1421]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses and men of Truro.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses and men of Truro state that as their town was greatly impoverished by pestilence, and by invasion and enemy attack from the sea, and especially by the surcharge on the tenth, Richard II granted that for twenty years they would pay only 50 shillings, and that after this term the same grant was made by the present king's father for ten years. These ten years are now over, and for lack of a permanent grant houses are not repaired and people leave the town: therefore they ask the commons to ask the Duke of Bedford and the lords to make it permanent, by authority of the present parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Soit baille as seignurs (It is to be delivered to the lords).[On dorse] The supplicants are to sue to the king.
- Places mentioned
- Truro, [Cornwall].
- People mentioned
- Richard II, King of England
- [Henry IV] King of England [John of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford and Guardian of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.638b-639a is from the roll of the parliament of January 1410 (11 Henry IV), and is the petition in response to which the grant is extended for ten years. The grant, CPR 1408-13 p.215, is dated at Westminster, January 28 1410. This petition must therefore be from c. 1420, and was clearly made to a parliament presided over by John, Duke of Bedford. This could be either the parliament of October 1419 (slightly before Henry IV's grant would run out) or that of December 1421. If the near-identical SC 8/23/1121, addressed to the king, is from the parliament of May 1421 (9 Henry V), it might be taken as the result of the endorsement here: in which case this petition might be more likely to be from 1419.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A near-identical petition from a parliament presided over by the king is SC 8/23/1121
An earlier related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/23/1120
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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 8150
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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 Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.215 (earlier grant to petitioners that they would pay only 50 shillings for ten years)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.515a-b (no.10) (full edition of original or of later copy of earlier related petition) & pp.638b-639a (transcription of earlier related petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061286/
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