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Burgesses and Tenants of Melcombe Regis. Commons. The burgesses and tenants of Melcombe...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/128/6371

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This record is about the Burgesses and Tenants of Melcombe Regis. Commons. The burgesses and tenants of Melcombe... dating from [? 1437] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/128/6371
Date
[? 1437]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses and Tenants of Melcombe Regis.
Addressees
Commons.
Nature of request
The burgesses and tenants of Melcombe Regis state that, at the Leicester Parliament of 1426, the Lords assigned the Bishop of Bath, Cheyne and Juyn to enquire into the condition of the town, and how much they ought to pay for their fee farm and for each fifteenth and tenth. This decided that the townspeople ought to pay 20s for the fee farm and 13s 4d for each fifteenth, but despite this the Exchequer continues to distrain them for arrears at the old rates. The burgesses therefore request that the King confirm this, granting them the keeping of the town for sixty years for the sums cited, and fully pardon all outstanding arrears now due.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] For the Chancellor, 2 March.Let it be sent to the Lords.
Places mentioned
Melcombe Regis, [Dorset]
Leicester, [Leicestershire].
People mentioned
[John Stafford], Bishop of Bath [and Wells]
William Cheyne
John Juyn.
Note
This is probably the petition which led to a grant made in these terms during pleasure on 8 July 1437 (CPR 1436-41, p.74), itself probably an extension of an earlier grant, the result of the petition in similar terms now at SC 8/126/6267 (probably dating to 1431).
Related material

The earlier petition referred to in this petition is SC 8/128/6388

A related petition is SC 8/19/922

An earlier petition in similar terms is SC 8/126/6267

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5920
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. III, 1436-1441, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.74 (grant in these terms during pleasure)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208548/

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