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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Essex and Hertfordshire. King. The petitioners request that a relief of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/109/5405
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This record is about the Commons of Essex and Hertfordshire. King. The petitioners request that a relief of... dating from [1376] 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 8/109/5405
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Essex and Hertfordshire.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that a relief of the farm of the shires allowed because of the poverty caused by the pestilence be allocated to the farm in perpetuity.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None.]
- Places mentioned
- Essex
- Hertfordshire.
- People mentioned
- Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Suggested on the guard as?1377-8, but much more likely to be the original petition that lay behind the request of the commons in the Good Parliament of 1376 for the allocation of this relief to the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire (Rot. Parl., vol. II, p. 349).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition on the same matter see SC 8/109/5448
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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 3070
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.349a-b (no. 151) (version of the petition on the parliament roll, with response)
- 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 1376, appendix, no. 11 (summary of petition and context)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149977/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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