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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Great Yarmouth. King and Council. The petitioners ask for consideration...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5136
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This record is about the Burgesses of Great Yarmouth. King and Council. The petitioners ask for consideration... dating from [c. 1377] 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 8/103/5136
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Great Yarmouth.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask for consideration of the state of their town of Great Yarmouth, and order a remedy such that they have safeguard against the king's enemies and are able to carry the burden of certain charges. They state that in past times their town was strong and inhabited by many wealthy persons of sufficient means to support the burden of charges due to the king's progenitors, namely: for the tenths collected in the realm, £100; for each year a fee farm to the exchequer, £55; other charges for ships, mariners etc., in times of war. And now their town is denuded and enfeebled, and so wasted that the greater part of the people who inhabited the town have left and stay elsewhere, and none [stay] in land, tenement, meadow, or pasture, nor appurtenance to the town, so that the petitioners and the commonality have not the means to support the aforesaid charges nor defend against the king's enemies.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is likely to be associated with claims being made by the townsmen of Yarmouth during and after the Good Parliament of 1376, and a date early in the reign of Richard II is most plausible.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/113/5615
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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 2149
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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/C9149706/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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