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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Northumberland. King and council. The people of Northumberland, who have...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/165/8209
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This record is about the People of Northumberland. King and council. The people of Northumberland, who have... dating from [? 1324] 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 8/165/8209
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Northumberland.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Northumberland, who have been ruined by war and since the truce are required to pay arrears of debts and rents at the Exchequer, request: 1) pardon of the same, as 200 townships in the county are deserted and will remain so as long as such demands are pending.2) that Horsley not collect rents, cornages, truncages and castle-guard dues owing since the battle of Stirling.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- It appears to the Council that it would please the King, to more quickly inhabit the lands of these good people for the defence of the land and because the [...] should answer [...] and are held [...] the King grant grace at his will.2) Coram ipso Rege.
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland
- Bamburgh, [Northumberland]
- Stirling, [Stirlingshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Orseleye (Horsley), constable of Bamburgh Castle.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1324, with reference to CCR 1323-7, p. 56, a 1324 order to allow the men of Northumberland respite, and SC 8/64/3199, a later but very similar petition from the same petitioners on the same subject. Fraser, Northumberland Petitions, pp. 190-1, dates the petition to? 1325, with reference to CCR 1323-7, pp. 262 and 439, grants of respite of all farms, wards, cornages, truncages, fenssilver, etc. owed in Northumberland. The petition must date from between March 1323, when the truce was reached, and 1326 since Horsley was relieved of his charge in February 1327. As to the similarity between this petition and SC 8/64/3199, Fraser suggests that they may be first and second editions of the same petition, both presented at the parliament of January 1327.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later but very similar petition from the same petitioners on the same subject see SC 8/64/3199
For a petition on a similar matter see SC 8/95/4725
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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)
- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.190-1 (no.166) (full edition and translation of the petition, with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294054/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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