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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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People of Truro. King's council. The people of Truro state that their town has been...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/76/3767
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This record is about the People of Truro. King's council. The people of Truro state that their town has been... dating from [? 1378] 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 8/76/3767
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Truro.
- Addressees
- King's council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Truro state that their town has been greatly ruined by pestilence and other things, and cannot pay the tax demanded from it for the new fifteenth. They request a writ to the collectors of the tax on this, and that they might levy their tax elsewhere, where the people can better afford it.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have a writ of supersedeas until next Michaelmas. And another writ is to be sent to the Sheriff to inquire, and to inform Chancery of the state of the town mentioned in the petition, between now and the feast of St John next.
- Places mentioned
- Truruburgh (Truro), Cornwall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Both CCR 1377-81 pp.54-55 and CCR 1377-81 p.129 are dated 4 March 1378. However, this speaks of two fifteenths granted at the last parliament - that of October 1377 - not of one, as the petition does, and CCR 1377-81 pp.54-55 states that it is in response to a petition from the collectors of the fifteenths in Cornwall, whereas this petition seems to be from the people of the town. So, although it seems likely that this petition dates from c. 1378, it is by no means certain.
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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 8066
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), pp.54-55 (order to inquire into the estate of the town of Truro, and whether it can pay the current two fifteenths) & 129 (writ of supersedeas until Michaelmas with regard to the town of Truro)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107541/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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