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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Poor burgesses of Ipswich. King and Lords. The burgesses of Ipswich request a reduction...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/118/5867
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This record is about the Poor burgesses of Ipswich. King and Lords. The burgesses of Ipswich request a reduction... dating from [1397] 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 8/118/5867
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1397]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Poor burgesses of Ipswich.
- Addressees
- King and Lords.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Ipswich request a reduction in the annual fee farm due from their town, on account of their poverty.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Ipswich, [Suffolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to the Parliament of January 1397 in PROME, being one of ten associated petitions. Misdated to 1399 (1 Henry IV) in Rot. Parl., vol. III, p.447.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the response to this and the other nine petitions presented with it see SC 8/22/1069
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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 4457
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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.447a (no.1) (full edition of petition) & no.7 (associated 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 January 1397, Appendix, no.2 (brief calendar of petition) & no.8 (associated response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150546/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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