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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Westmorland. King. The commons of Westmorland state that because of the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/148/7353
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/148/7353
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1397]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Westmorland.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The commons of Westmorland state that because of the great damage they have suffered, and continue to suffer, at the hands of the Scots, the Bishop of Salisbury, formerly Treasurer of England, and the others of the council promised them that they would be discharged of a quarter of the half fifteenth and tenth agreed in the parliament of the King's fifteenth year (1391); but that the collectors of the fifteenth and tenth in Westmorland are now being distrained by the Exchequer to levy this sum. They ask the King to order his ministers of the Exchequer to cease this demand.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] To the lords.[None on dorse.]
- Places mentioned
- Westmorland
- Scotland
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- [John Waltham], Bishop of Salisbury, Treasurer of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition must date from the reign of Richard II, and from after the death of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury and Treasurer of England, in1395. It clearly dates from a parliament (the endorsement that it is to be sent to the lords), and must therefore date from one of the parliaments of 1397.
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.447b-448a (no.4) (full edition of original petition, mis-dated to 1399)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209537/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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