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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 8/23/1121
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/23/1121
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Date (When the record was created)
- [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 king to make it permanent.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Soit baillez as seignurs (It is to be delivered to the lords).[None on dorse.]
- Places mentioned
- Truro, [Cornwall].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is nearly identical to SC 8/23/1119, differing largely in that it is addressed to the king, rather than to the Duke of Bedford. Like SC 8/23/1119, it must be from c. 1420(the grant of a lower subsidy is extended for ten years by Henry IV in 1410 (Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.638b-639a from the roll of the parliament of January 1410, and the enrolment of the grant, CPR 1408-13 p.215, dated at Westminster, January 28 1410). If it is roughly contemporary (perhaps a result of the endorsement of that petition, that the petitioners are to sue to the king?) and is clearly presented during a parliament, it must be from that of May 1421, the only parliament of the end of his reign at which Henry V was actually present.
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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 Duke of Bedford is SC 8/23/1119
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 8148
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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/C9061288/
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