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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Men of Northampton. King and council. The men of Northampton request that they be...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/161/8032
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This record is about the Men of Northampton. King and council. The men of Northampton request that they be... dating from [1334] 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 8/161/8032
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Men of Northampton.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The men of Northampton request that they be assigned some other form of revenue towards their farm to replace the revenue lost when the staple was withdrawn from England and the revenue in the town from cloth workers declined; and that they should have their fair set at a new time of year as they have no profit from the present one because of the fair of Westminster.
- Nature of endorsement
- It seems to the council, if it pleases the king, that they should have a fair to last eight days.
- Places mentioned
- Northampton, [Northamptonshire]
- Westminster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1334 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 8 Edw. III (1328) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, pp.85a-86b (no.54)).
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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 Charter Rolls, vol. IV, 1-14 Edw III, 1327-1341, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.390 (grant of a fair, for a month, to the town of Northampton in 1337)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.85b-86a (no. 54) (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293876/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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