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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Kingston upon Hull. King and Council. The burgesses request that they...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5952
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This record is about the Burgesses of Kingston upon Hull. King and Council. The burgesses request that they... dating from [? c. 1377] 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 8/120/5952
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Kingston upon Hull.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request that they be discharged of certain levies charged upon them, and that the lands of York and Beverley be asked to assist them in contributing to future levies. They state that they have suffered greatly from the seizure of their ships for use in the king's navy, and are impoverished by the costs of defence, both against the rivers and against the Scots. For this reason, many burgesses have left, to the greater impoverishment of the town.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The response is given elsewhere in this bundle.2) Coram magnatibus.
- Places mentioned
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- River Humber, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- River Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- York
- Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? c 1377, with reference to CPR 1374-7, p.428. Frost, Hull, p.134 suggests that the petition referred to there was prompted by new charges on Beverley themselves prompted by the present petition. This would seem to be a plausible chronology.
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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 4684
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.428 (order to discharge the people of Beverley from various charges)
- Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull, C. Frost, (, 1827), p.134n (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150645/
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