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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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Liege people of Cumberland and Westmorland. King and council. The people request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/83/4147
What’s it about?
This record is about the Liege people of Cumberland and Westmorland. King and council. The people request... dating from [c. 1314-c. 1327] 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 8/83/4147
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1314-c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Liege people of Cumberland and Westmorland.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request remedy as they are charged outrageously to reside in the castles of those parts when the enemy are in power, despite it being ordered that they ought not to be charged. Otherwise they will be forced to leave the land.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by a writ containing the things in this petition and all other agreements in such cases to suffer to make . . . Let it be ordered . . . that they make agreements and . . . and that other agreements made before now . . .
- Places mentioned
- Cumberland
- Westmorland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- There is no internal or external evidence positively to date this petition, so it has been tentatively dated to the second half of Edward II's reign (c. 1314-c. 1327) on the assumption that this is the period most likely to have generated this type of complaint when Scottish cross border raiding was a regular occurrence in the north of England.
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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 1681
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.145-6 (no.112) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148689/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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