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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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Men of Cambridge. King and council. The men of Cambridge state that lately, with...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/99/4946
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This record is about the Men of Cambridge. King and council. The men of Cambridge state that lately, with... dating from [c. 1350-c. 1400] 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 8/99/4946
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1350-c. 1400]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Men of Cambridge.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The men of Cambridge state that lately, with the King's permission, various men of religion and colleges have appropriated and purchased lands and tenements in the town, amounting to a third of the town, greatly to their harm and that of their farm, as has been found by various inquisitions taken on this and returned in Chancery. They request a remedy, that their farm might be reduced by the amount of the losses established by the inquisitions; and that in future no such appropriation might take place, as the town has been greatly destroyed by arson.
- Nature of endorsement
- The council of the Queen, who has the farm of the said town, is to be summoned before the Chancellor and others of the King's council; and justice is further to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Internal evidence suggests that the petition may belong to the period after the Black Death when considerable amounts of property in Cambridge were acquired by the colleges; the reference to the queen holding the farm of the town of Cambridge means that, within the second half of the fourteenth century, the likely periods for the petition are 1350-1358 (Queen Isabella), 1360-69 (Queen Philippa) or 1382-94 (Queen Anne).
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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 1677
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149513/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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