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Lieges of Northumberland. King and Council. The people of Northumberland request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6439
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This record is about the Lieges of Northumberland. King and Council. The people of Northumberland request... dating from [? 1383] 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 8/129/6439
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1383]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lieges of Northumberland.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Northumberland request exemption from the 'grant of groats', as they will otherwise be unable to pay the fifteenth. They also ask that the people living in the areas close to Scotland destroyed by the war may have a reduction in their payment of the subsidy according to their ability to pay.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland
- Scotland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The 'grant of groats' clearly relates to one of the poll taxes granted in 1377 or 1380. Fraser links the petition to the 1377 grant, and to the two fifteenths and tenths granted later that year. However, the reference to 'groats' might be more likely to refer to 1380, when the charge was 3 groats per person, as opposed to one groat in 1377. Moreover, the returns show that Northumberland was taxed at the full rate in 1377, and although the account appears at the end of the account roll for the tax (E 359 8B), there is nothing there or in the returns to suggest that collection (due in April 1377) was late enough to conflict with the following fifteenths and tenths (granted in October 1377 but not due until February 1378), and there had been no other such grant since 1373. However, no entry for Northumberland appears on the account roll for the 1380 grant (E 359/8C), suggesting payment was either late or non-existent (no returns survive), and given the problems associated with the tax, it seems more likely that the petition relates to the 1380 grant. The next fifteenth and tenth was granted in October 1382 for payment in February 1383 (and this was clearly delayed; see CPR 1381-5, p.639 and SC 8/226/11263), and thus the parliament of February 1383 appears most likely for the presentation of this petition.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a near-duplicate of this petition see SC 8/129/6441
For transcript, see no.24 of PRO 31/7/109
For a similar petition explicitly for the poll tax granted in 1380 see SC 8/226/11263
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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 6076
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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)
- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.220 (no.197) (edition and translation of petition, with discussion)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208618/
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