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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Bamburgh King and council The people of Bamburgh ask to be pardoned the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1563
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This record is about the People of Bamburgh King and council The people of Bamburgh ask to be pardoned the... dating from [1333] 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 8/32/1563
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Bamburgh
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The people of Bamburgh ask to be pardoned the 26 marks that they owe for the farm of their town for the last Easter term, and also that they might be pardoned the farm for the next Easter term, as they have been burnt and destroyed by the Scottish war for the last twenty years, and are now completely ruined again: and they cannot afford to pay.
- Nature of endorsement
- They are to be pardoned the 26 marks due for the last Easter term; and for the future, nothing.
- Places mentioned
- Bamburgh, [Northumberland]
- Scotland
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1333-7 p.70 is dated at Newcastle upon Tyne, 3 August 1333. This seems to be in answer to this petition, but Northumberland Petitions pp.198-9 (no. 176) is more cautious, dating this petition only to '? 1333'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A similar earlier petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/32/1565
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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 1226
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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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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.198-9 (no.176) (full edition and English summary of petition, with references)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.70 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to discharge the people of Bamburgh of 26 marks, which they owe for the farm of the present year)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061760/
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