Piece
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Burgesses, commons and tenants of Great Yarmouth. King and council in the present...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5616
What’s it about?
This record is about the Burgesses, commons and tenants of Great Yarmouth. King and council in the present... dating from [1397] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/113/5616
-
Date (When the record was created)
- [1397]
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
- Petitioners
- Burgesses, commons and tenants of Great Yarmouth.
- Addressees
- King and council in the present parliament.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses, commons and tenants of Great Yarmouth request remedy and relief from the great charges of the tenths and fifteenths as the port is partly obstructed so that fewer ships come there and many of the houses of the town are vacant, and the town will be ruined without relief.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].To the Lords.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
-
Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
-
For an earlier petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/113/5615
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 3723
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- French
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.447a-b (no.2) (full edition of original petition)
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150284/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
74,884 records
18,283 records
57 records
You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/113/5616
Burgesses, commons and tenants of Great Yarmouth. King and council in the present...
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.