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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Campell, Abbot of Tavistock. Campell Robert King. Abbot of Tavistock Robert,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/143/7115
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/143/7115
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Campell, Abbot of Tavistock.
- Name(s)
- Campell, Robert
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Tavistock
- Nature of request
- Robert, Abbot of Tavistock, states that the tin-miners of Devon, who are in his keeping at the King's pleasure, have been quit of all manner of taxes, tallages and customs on their own goods from time immemorial, as the charter of Edward I and the confirmation of the present King attest, but that they are now being distrained for the twelfth, eighteenth and sixteenth. He asks that they might be discharged of these taxes.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.They are to show their charters in Chancery, and for the tin-miners working in the stannaries they are to have writs in due form according to the points of their charters.
- Places mentioned
- Tavistock, [Devon]
- Devon.
- People mentioned
- Tin-miners of Devon
- Edward [I], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1317-21 p.537 is dated 27 July 1320, and the petition would seem to date from about this time, as the taxes complained about would seem to be the eighteenth and twelfth of 1319, and the sixteenth and fifteenth of 1316. Robert Campell died in 1325.
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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, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.537 (mandate to the keepers of the king's mines in Devon and Cornwall, which the King has committed to the Abbot and convent of Tavistock during pleasure, to provide miners for these mines)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209295/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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