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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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Commons of the vill of Appleby. King and council of parliament. The commons request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4470
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This record is about the Commons of the vill of Appleby. King and council of parliament. The commons request... dating from [1380] 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 8/90/4470
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the vill of Appleby.
- Addressees
- King and council of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The commons request that their farm and the taxes that they pay be reduced because the town is much impoverished by pestilence and by competition by unlicenced markets called church markets (Kyrkmarkethes) where the goods that ought to be sold in the town are forestalled.
- Nature of endorsement
- All the markets called kirkemarkettys and other markets whatsoever in prejudice of their market and without the king's authority are to be ended.
- Places mentioned
- Appleby, [Westmorland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1380 when a commission of oyer and terminer, an inquisition and a grant all relating to this matter were issued (CPR 1377-81, pp.520, 565-6; CIM 1377-89, no.125).
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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 296
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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)
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- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. IV, 1-12 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1957), no.125 (inquisition into the impoverishment and the holding of illegal markets)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.520 (grant of a moiety of the profits from forfeitures from illegal markets) & pp.565-6 (commission of oyer and terminer into the holding of illegal markets near Appleby)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149015/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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