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Burgesses and commonalty of Great Yarmouth. King and council. The burgesses and commonalty...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5615

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This record is about the Burgesses and commonalty of Great Yarmouth. King and council. The burgesses and commonalty... dating from [? 1377] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/113/5615
Date
[? 1377]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses and commonalty of Great Yarmouth.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The burgesses and commonalty request a remedy and that the charges placed on them be removed as the farm and tallage are too great with the hardships that they have endured, otherwise the town will be ruined.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk].
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1377 by reference to CPR 1377-80, p. 50.
Related material

For a later petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/113/5616

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3722
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150283/

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