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People of Tilney. King and council. Request for remission of taxation or a new assessment...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/76/3762

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This record is about the People of Tilney. King and council. Request for remission of taxation or a new assessment... dating from [1337] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/76/3762
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
People of Tilney.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Request for remission of taxation or a new assessment because, as a result of a storm and the incursions of the sea, they cannot pay the fifteenth granted in the king's tenth year, or the costs for three footsoldiers.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.Certain people are to be appointed to inquire into the damages and losses they have suffered through the storm, and how and in what manner, and into the other circumstances touching etc., and when the inquisition has been returned, the King is to be advised to grant them remission of his grace, if it please him. And the demand made of them is to cease until next Pentecost, if it please the Chancellor.
Places mentioned
Tilney, Norfolk.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1337, with reference to CFR 1337-47 p.19, dated 1 June 1337. This assessment covers a number of towns, not Tilney only, and is said to be in response to their petition to the king and council in the last parliament: which would mean that this petition was presented to the parliament of March 1337.
Related material

For a petition by the people of another vill on the same matter, see SC 8/152/7565

For a related petition see SC 8/78/3856

For a related petition, see SC 8/170/8456

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7931
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. V, Edw III, 1337-1347, (Public Record Office, 1915), p.19 (instructions for new assessment in Tilney and other towns)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107536/

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