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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Penwith and Kerrier hundreds in Cornwall. King and Commons in Parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/104/5161
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This record is about the Commons of Penwith and Kerrier hundreds in Cornwall. King and Commons in Parliament.... dating from [1416] 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 8/104/5161
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1416]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Penwith and Kerrier hundreds in Cornwall.
- Addressees
- King and Commons in Parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request a commission of enquiry into certain extortions committed in their hundreds, or an order for twelve sufficient persons from the hundreds to come before the addressees and be examined of the truth of their case, and state that on his coronation King Henry (the king's father), pardoned the commons of the realm of half of the fifteenth granted to King Richard, which pardon was declared in all counties of the realm. Notwithstanding this, John Treweroes (one of the collectors of the half fifteenth in Cornwall), entered into sixty parishes in the hundreds with the agreement of his associates, intending to collect the said tax to the amount of £100, and took 2s from each parish as his fee by extortion. No collector levied any money in the hundreds, but Treweroes kept the 2s fee for his own use, to the anger of the petitioners and in contempt of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be handed to the king's council, and let the same council have full power through the authority of parliament to make such remedy in the complaints written within etc.
- Places mentioned
- Cornwall
- Penwith hundred, [Cornwall]
- Kerrier hundred, [Cornwall].
- People mentioned
- Henry IV, King of England
- Richard II, King of England
- John Treweroes.
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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 2211
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.88a-b (edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1416, appendix no. 2 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149731/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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