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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses and commons of Truro. Commons of parliament. The burgesses and men of Truro...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1120
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This record is about the Burgesses and commons of Truro. Commons of parliament. The burgesses and men of Truro... dating from [1402] 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 8/23/1120
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1402]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses and commons of Truro.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses and men of Truro state that as their town was greatly impoverished by enemy attack from the sea, and especially by the surcharge on the tenth, Richard II, as the result of a petition in the first year of his reign, granted that for ten years they would pay only 50 shillings, and after that renewed this grant for another ten years. Now, after the last tenth, as the burgesses and inhabitants were threatening to abandon the town, the king granted, in response to their petition, granted that they should pay 50 shillings until another remedy was provided. They ask the commons to ask the king that, on the advice of the lords, he might make this grant permanent.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Suez a roy (Sue to the king).[On dorse] They are to sue to the king, and he will do on this what seems to him to be best in the case.
- Places mentioned
- Truro, [Cornwall]
- Falmouth, [Cornwall].
- People mentioned
- Richard II, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A note on the guard says 'Dated 1402-1403 in Rot. Parl., but probably 1410, cf. Pat R. p.215.' CPR 1408-13 p.215 is dated at Westminster, January 28 1410. If this petition is from 1410, the wording is rather different from the one enrolled on the roll (Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.638b-639a) and makes mention of an indefinite grant by the present king, rather than the six-years grant mentioned by that petition. It would seem likely that this as earlier than the petition edited in Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.638b-639a, and the date of 1402 suggested by Rot. Parl. vol. III p.515a-b (no. 10) is accepted.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A petition formerly attached to this one is SC 8/22/1085
Another later related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/23/1121
A later related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/23/1119
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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 8126
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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 (grant to petitioners that they shall 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 petition or of later copy) & pp.638b-639a (transcription of related petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061287/
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