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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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Burgesses and commons of Southampton. King and council. [This petition is badly damaged,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/142/7088
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This record is about the Burgesses and commons of Southampton. King and council. [This petition is badly damaged,... dating from [? c. 1380] 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 8/142/7088
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses and commons of Southampton.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged, and much of the right-hand side is missing.]The burgesses and commons of Southampton appear to state that for their relief they took the profits, customs and tolls of their town at farm, but have suffered so greatly from pestilence and destruction of their town, and loss of trade because of the war, that they can no longer bear the costs of this farm. They ask that they may be discharged of it, and hold their town as they did before. They also state that they were given [the farm?] to enclose their town, and seem perhaps to be asking for aid with that.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Southampton, [Hampshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1377-81 p.448 is dated 4 March 1380. This petition seems to be related - it is perhaps slightly later? - but it would appear, in any case, to be from the early years of Richard II.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.46 of PRO 31/7/105
For a related petition, see SC 8/75/3705
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.448 (remission to the burgesses of their farm for three years, on condition that the money from the farm for that time be put to repairing the enclosure and defences of the town)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209267/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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