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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and Commonalty of Lincoln. King. The mayor and commonalty of Lincoln request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/121/6024
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This record is about the Mayor and Commonalty of Lincoln. King. The mayor and commonalty of Lincoln request... dating from [1426] 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 8/121/6024
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1426]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and Commonalty of Lincoln.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The mayor and commonalty of Lincoln request the right to purchase lands to the value of £120 per annum, to help them in paying the various charges due from the city. They state that they are charged with a fee farm of £180 per annum, as well as £100 for each lay subsidy, but are unable to raise the money, partly because the various franchises in the city do not contribute, and also because there are only 200 people in the city eligible to pay.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] For Lord Cromwell 13 May[on dorse] The king, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal, grants to the mayor and commonalty of Lincoln, for the relief of the said city, that they should have licence to purchase lands and tenements not held of the king in chief or of any other person by knight service, to the value of £100 per annum for a reasonable fine in the Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
- Cathedral Close, Lincoln
- The Bail, Lincoln
- Duchy of Lancaster.
- People mentioned
- [Ralph Cromwell], Lord Cromwell.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Assigned to the Parliament of February 1426 in Rot. Parl., Vol. III, p.313a.
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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 5036
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.313a (full edition of petition and 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 February 1426, Appendix, item 16 (calendar of petition and response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208190/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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