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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Poor people of Wiggenhall, Ilsington, Tilney, Clenchwarton, Watlington, Runcton Holme,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/146/7272
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This record is about the Poor people of Wiggenhall, Ilsington, Tilney, Clenchwarton, Watlington, Runcton Holme,... dating from [c. 1379] 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 8/146/7272
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Poor people of Wiggenhall, Ilsington, Tilney, Clenchwarton, Watlington, Runcton Holme, Setchey and West Winch.
- Addressees
- King in parliament.
- Nature of request
- The poor people of Wiggenhall, Ilsington, Tilney, Clenchwarton, Watlington, Runcton Holme, Setchey [and West Winch], in the marshland in Norfolk, which has suffered greatly from floods and inundations of salt water, due to an increase in the width of the Wiggenhall River, state that the people of King's Lynn have presented a malicious bill to the present parliament stating that if the river is made narrower it will greatly harm them and the surrounding counties: which bill is clearly unreasonable. They ask that the justices in those parts might be able to carry out their office in this case according to the law and usages of the marshland, and return the river to its previous width without any supersedeas being granted against them.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Wiggenhall, Norfolk
- Ilsington, Norfolk
- Tilney, Norfolk
- Clenchwarton, Norfolk
- Watlington, Norfolk
- Runcton Holme, Norfolk
- Setchey, Norfolk
- [West Winch, Norfolk]
- Wiggenhall River
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
- Cambridgeshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Northamptonshire
- Bedfordshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Leicestershire
- Warwickshire
- Derbyshire
- Suffolk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 'c. 1379', with reference to SC 8/149/7447, which can be dated to 1379. It certainly seems to relate to the same matter, and may be contemporary or perhaps slightly later.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/149/7447
For transcript, see no.98 of PRO 31/7/106
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209455/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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