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Burgesses of Lyme Regis. Commons. The burgesses of Lyme Regis request a reduction...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/121/6030

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This record is about the Burgesses of Lyme Regis. Commons. The burgesses of Lyme Regis request a reduction... dating from [1402] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/121/6030
Date
[1402]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses of Lyme Regis.
Addressees
Commons.
Nature of request
The burgesses of Lyme Regis request a reduction in their fee farm, exemption from other charges and the recently-granted fifteenth, and the cancellation of arrears, on account of their great poverty. They state that they are also on the frontier of the realm, and that many of the burgesses have left the town due to the great charges made upon it.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] Sue to the King.[on dorse] Sue to the king and he will do what seems right in this case.
Places mentioned
Lyme Regis, Dorset
Note
This petition (along with others which together once formed a file) is assigned to the parliament of Autumn 1402 in Rot. Parl. Vol. III, p.515a. A note on the guard dates it this petition (and hence all the others) to? 1410, with reference to the granting of the burgesses' wishes on 8 May 1410 (CPR 1408-13, p.202), but this was clearly in response to another petition, as the enrolment of this petition (Rot. Parl. Vol. III, p.640a) contains far more details than the present document. The date given in Rot. Parl. would seem to be correct.
Related material

A petition formerly attached to this one is SC 8/22/1085

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5045
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.202 (pardon to the burgesses of Lyme Regis of the arrears of the farm of the town and of all tenths and fifteenths , following an inquisition into earlier payments, destruction by the king's enemies and the poverty of the town)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.515a (full edition of petition)
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