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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
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Mayor and citizens of Lincoln. Commons. The Mayor and citizens of Lincoln request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/122/6083
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This record is about the Mayor and citizens of Lincoln. Commons. The Mayor and citizens of Lincoln request... dating from [? 1437] 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 8/122/6083
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1437]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and citizens of Lincoln.
- Addressees
- Commons.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor and citizens of Lincoln request that the Commons ask the King to allow them the right to ship wool from Hull or Boston free from all customs charges for the next twenty years, and that they be freed from all fifteenths and tenths, so that they can raise the money to pay the city fee farm. Alternatively they ask that the king resume all the liberties of the city, and thus cancel the fee farm. They claim that the great burdens of the fee farm and taxation have impoverished the city, to the extent that most of the citizens have fled, leaving the city desolate and empty.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] To be sent to the Lords.For the Chancellor, 14 March.
- Places mentioned
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Boston, [Lincolnshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A note on the guard dates the petition to? 1437, presumably in connection with the on-going exemption from fifteenths and tenths granted to Lincoln in that year. However, the people of Lincoln had been allowed partial exemptions in previous grants, presumably the result of petitions such as this, and thus this particular petition may be earlier in date.
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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 5158
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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)
- English
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208253/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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