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Citizens of Norwich. King and council The citizens request that they may have back...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/64/3185

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This record is about the Citizens of Norwich. King and council The citizens request that they may have back... dating from [c. 1290] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/64/3185
Date
[c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Citizens of Norwich.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The citizens request that they may have back the city and the liberty that was taken into the king's hand by false attestation of the sheriff. They have sued allowances in the Exchequer and requests that they can have peace until he has spoken his will on this. If the warden who the king put into the city to levy the ancient debt attermined by the king's grace at £10 per annum in instalments, and which they have always paid, levies this debt quickly from the citizens the city will be destroyed in perpetuity so they request grace.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Norwich, [Norfolk].
Note
The petition is likely to date to 1290 as details of the taking of the city into the king's hand, and of the nature of the debt referred to in this petition can be found in the Exchequer Memoranda roll for Easter term 1290, and a related petition by the same petitioners also dates to this year (E 159/63 m.11; Rot. Parl., Vol. I::p.58a (no.149)).
Related material

For a record of the seizure of the city and details of the nature of the debt see m.11 in E 159/63

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6010
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.58a (no.149) (Latin summary of contemporary related petition by the same petitioners)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no. 177 (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106948/

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