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? No Petitioner named Copy of a royal writ suspending the collection of any taxes...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5139

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a royal writ suspending the collection of any taxes... dating from [c. 1382] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/103/5139
Date
[c. 1382]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a royal writ suspending the collection of any taxes in the city of York other the usual subsidies to the king. Dated at Northampton, 5 December 1381.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
York
Northampton, [Northamptonshire].
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England.
Note
Note on guard. This is a copy of the original writ including the dating clause, which would suggest that this copy and the previous petition were probably drafted not long afterwards (i.e. early 1382).
Related material

For transcript, see no.2 of PRO 31/7/108

For the petition to which this writ was originally attached see SC 8/103/5138

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2154
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149709/

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