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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the vill of Spaldington. King and council. The people request that the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/72/3561
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This record is about the People of the vill of Spaldington. King and council. The people request that the... dating from [c. 1325-c. 1350] 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 8/72/3561
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1325-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the vill of Spaldington.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request that the prior of Ellerton be distrained to pay his portion of the tax in the manner of other farmers of the grange of the prior of Ormesby in Spaldington. The taxers excluded the prior of Ellerton by favour to the impoverishment of the petitioners.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the prior of Ellerton is a farmer he ought not to have advantages that other farmers before this have not had; let it be ordered to the taxers that they tax the prior with the vill as the other farmers have been before this time.
- Places mentioned
- Spaldington, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Prior of Ormesby
- Prior of Ellerton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No firm dating has been established, and the petition is tentatively assigned to the second quarter of the fourteenth century on the basis of the hand and the French endorsement.
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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 7242
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107335/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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