Series
Ministry of Food: Senior Officers' Papers
Catalogue reference: MAF 128
Date: 1938-1978
Papers of senior officers of the Ministry of Food, mostly from the period of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, dealing with all...
Item
People of Great Yarmouth. King and council. The people of Great Yarmouth request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/159/7910
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This record is about the People of Great Yarmouth. King and council. The people of Great Yarmouth request... dating from [1328] 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 8/159/7910
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Great Yarmouth.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Great Yarmouth request that the letters of obligation which they gave for money paid them to equip a fleet to protect the fishermen who were daily robbed and killed be held null as they did the service for which they were paid.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ of Chancery be sent to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that they should inform themselves as to whether the money was delivered to the people for the service, and if it is found that it is as the petition alleges then they should be discharged and their letters of obligation returned.
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- Adam de Bridlington.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1328 as the petition was answered by an order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer on 8 February 1328 (CCR 1327-30, p.251).
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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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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Fishing
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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. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.251 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer in accordance with the response to the petition)
- Calendar of Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer), Michaelmas 1326-Michaelmas 1327, (Public Record Office, 1968), p.74 (no.537) (quittance of the sum and restitution of their bond) & p.138 (no.919) (request for quittance of the sum and restitution of their bond by townsmen
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210102/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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