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Heirs and landed tenants of all those who were tax collectors of the fifteenths and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/102/5058

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This record is about the Heirs and landed tenants of all those who were tax collectors of the fifteenths and... dating from [c. 1381-c. 1382] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/102/5058
Date
[c. 1381-c. 1382]
Description
Petitioners
Heirs and landed tenants of all those who were tax collectors of the fifteenths and tenths granted to the king's grandfather.
Addressees
King and Council
Nature of request
The petitioners ask for a writ to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer discharging them from the tenths and fifteenths for year six of the king, as in many counties these taxes were uncollected yet remain on their accounts at the exchequer, to their great damage etc.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
England.
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England.
Note
Notes on the guard date this petition to 1381-2, but without references. Internal evidence indicates that it must date from the reign of Richard II, and probably early in the reign.
Related material

For transcript, see no.5 of PRO 31/7/107

For an earlier petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/143/7119

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1970
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149627/

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