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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Newcastle. King and council. The townsmen request relief of a levy of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/65/3209
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This record is about the Commons of Newcastle. King and council. The townsmen request relief of a levy of... dating from [? 1341-? 1342] 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 8/65/3209
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1341-? 1342]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Newcastle.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The townsmen request relief of a levy of wool due to their great impoverishment as a result of levies to support the king's wars.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio [Before the king and great council]
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Scotland
- Berwick upon Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- William de Kildesby (Kilsby), [keeper of the privy seal].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in Northumberland Petitions, p. 217 (no. 194) to 1341-2, though it appears among petitions of 1348 in Rot. Parl., vol. II, p. 178.
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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 6015
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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), no.194 (calendar and references)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), 178a (no. 11) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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), parliament of January 1348, Appendix no. 15 (summary of petition and references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106972/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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