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Mayor, bailiffs and commonalty of Cambridge. Commons. The petitioners seek a reduction...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/104/5169
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This record is about the Mayor, bailiffs and commonalty of Cambridge. Commons. The petitioners seek a reduction... dating from [1402] 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 8/104/5169
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1402]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, bailiffs and commonalty of Cambridge.
- Addressees
- Commons.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek a reduction in their annual fee farm to the king. They complain that Richard II, in the parliament at Westminster in 1380-1, by matters moved in the parliament, seized into his hands all the liberties and privileges previously granted to the petitioners before the same year by the king's noble progenitors. Afterwards, in the parliament held in 1381-2, the king ordered and by his charter confirmed that the chancellor of the university of Cambridge, and his heirs forever, should have the greater part of all the liberties and privileges that the petitioners held before 1380-1, including keeping the assize of bread and wine, and other liberties etc., for an annual farm of £10 to the king and his heirs, with the profits of these privileges (until then in the hands of the petitioners), to the said chancellor and his successors. The petitioners pay the king the ancient farm of the town; 101 marks per year. Nevertheless, the petitioners, of their ancient liberties alienated to the said chancellor have lost five marks per year to their disinheritance.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let this [petition] be delivered to the lords for discussion with the king. [On dorse] Let them sue to the king and he will adjudge as seems fit in the matter.
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Richard II, King of England
- Edward III, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Printed in Rot. Parl., vol. III, pp. 515-516 as of 1402, and dated to that parliament in PROME.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A petition formerly attached to this one is SC 8/22/1085
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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 2270
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.515b-516a (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 1402, appendix no. 14 (summary of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149739/
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