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Burgesses of Scarborough. King and council. The burgesses request remedy and that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/71/3514

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Reference
SC 8/71/3514
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses of Scarborough.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The burgesses request remedy and that an allowance be made in their next farms. They paid the farm in the fifth year of Edward II's reign. However, the king came and took the town into the king's hand and demanded the farm and more so that they paid the farm twice in one year to their great damage.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered by writ of Chancery to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that when they have viewed the accounts of which the petition mentions, if they find that they have paid the farm twice then they are to make allowance to them.
Places mentioned
Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
Wallesgrave (Falsgrave), [North Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England.
Note
The petition can be dated to 1331 as it was answered on 24 October 1331 (CCR 1330-3, p.353).
Related material

For a petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/157/7813

For a petition by the same petitioners on a related matter, see SC 8/169/8426

For a related petition see SC 8/138/6892

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7379
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.353 (order to the treasurer and barons to allow the additional sum in their next farm)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.405a (no.149) (full edition of original petition)
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