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People of Appleby in Westmorland. King and council. The people request remedy and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/81/4042

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SC 8/81/4042
Date
[1312-1320]
Description
Petitioners
People of Appleby in Westmorland.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people request remedy and that those who still live in the town be able to have the farm of the town for the farm paid by Appleby at the Exchequer as they have been burnt three times by the Scots and the town was taken into the king's hand, and the keepers have levied and taken the issues of the town and the full farm is demanded whereby many have left the town and it is on the point of ruin because of the debt.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let this be delivered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, and they are to take advice on it and report this advice to the king.2) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Appleby, Westmorland.
People mentioned
Thomas de Corbrigge (Corbridge), keeper of the town of Appleby.
Note
The petition must date to after 1312 when the town was apparently taken into the king's hand because the farm had not been paid for the previous two years. As the petition refers to three burnings by the Scots, it perhaps dates to the latter end of the decade, though no evidence to date the petition to this time survives. The dating of 1312-1320 has been adopted.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 217
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.416 (order to take the town into the king's hand if the farm had not been paid for the last 2 years)
  • Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.6 (calendar of partial Latin summary on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148582/

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