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People of the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland. King. The people...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4086

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This record is about the People of the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland. King. The people... dating from [c. 1321] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/82/4086
Date
[c. 1321]
Description
Petitioners
People of the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people request that they be pardoned all manner of debts levied on them from the Exchequer from the annual rent for their lands for three further years, they having respite until All Saints as they are totally ruined by the war.
Nature of endorsement
They should have respite on this for three years, the king wishes that his debts are levied after the respite has passed.
Places mentioned
Cumberland
Westmorland
Northumberland.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1321 primarily on the dating suggested by Fraser (Northern Petitions, pp.135-6 (no.102)). There seems no reason to question this dating, though further respites were granted up until 1326 (E 159/94 m.43d; 96 m.17d; 97 mm.34d, 79d; 102, mm.44, 57, 65).
Related material

The respite until All Saints can be found on m.43d in E 159/94

For two further respites for the people of Northumberland and to the people of Northumberland with the people of the other northern counties see mm.44, 57 and 65 in E 159/102

For another respite until Michaelmas and similar respites to the people of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland see mm.17d and 20 in E 159/96

For two further respites for the people of Northumberland, and a similar respite for the people of Cumberland see mm.34d, 79d and 87d in E 159/97

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2102
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.135-6 (no.102) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148626/

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