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Burgesses of Dunwich. King and council. The burgesses request that the king take...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7891
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This record is about the Burgesses of Dunwich. King and council. The burgesses request that the king take... dating from [1331] 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 8/158/7891
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Dunwich.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses request that the king take the town into his hand stating that they are not able to pay their farm, and people leave the town because of the malice and false indictments and suits that the Claverings and their tenants make against people in the town.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Dunwich, [Suffolk]
- Blything hundred, [Suffolk]
- Wangford hundred, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- John de Claveryng (Clavering)
- Edmund [de Claveryng (Clavering)], brother of John de Clavering.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition that may have been attached to SC 8/11/519 see SC 8/107/5342
For a related petition see SC 8/257/12844
For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/11/519
For a warrant to the bishop of Winchester, the chancellor to view this petition and ordain a remedy of the things contained in it, see no 4563 in C 81/181
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.360-1 (order to the Clavering brothers to desist)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.44a-b (no.60) (full edition of another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210083/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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