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Lieges of Northumberland. King and Council. The people of Northumberland request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6441
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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 8/129/6441
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a near-duplicate of this petition see SC 8/129/6439
For transcript, see no.23 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 6078
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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 duplicate petition, with discussion)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208620/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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