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People of Penrith. King and council. Request that the council question the bishop...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/136/6761
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This record is about the People of Penrith. King and council. Request that the council question the bishop... dating from [1376] 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 8/136/6761
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Penrith.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Request that the council question the bishop of Carlisle, as keeper of the town, concerning the contamination of running water by tanners in the town of Penrith.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let certain men be assigned to inquire.
- Places mentioned
- Penrith, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- [Thomas Appleby,] Bishop of Carlisle.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Northern Petitions, pp. 107-8.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a list of petitions to the parliament of 1376 of which this was one see C 49/43/10
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
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- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.107-108 (no.74) (summary of petition with references)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1376, appendix no. 24 (summary of C 49/43/10)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208943/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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