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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of the county of Cumberland. Council. The commons request remedy as they...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8082
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This record is about the Commons of the county of Cumberland. Council. The commons request remedy as they... dating from [? 1343] 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 8/162/8082
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1343]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of the county of Cumberland.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The commons request remedy as they are being distrained for the damages and robberies made by the people of Tynedale who pass through their land to Scotland and do great damage, because the malefactors cannot be arrested in the queen's liberty of Tynedale.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the queen's council be called, and if she does not ordain a remedy concerning the malefactors then let a great commission be directed to the lords of the country where the malefactors pass, and let them be arrested and taken.
- Places mentioned
- Cumberland
- Tynedale, [Northumberland]
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? 1343 on the basis of probably related commissions made on complaint by the people of Cumberland and Westmorland (CPR 1343-5, pp.67, 88).
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1343-1345, (Public Record Office, 1902), pp.67, 88 (probably related entries concerning complaints by the people of Northumberland and Cumberland)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.100-01 (no.67) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293926/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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