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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Seaford. Council. The people of Seaford request that they be permitted...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10715
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This record is about the People of Seaford. Council. The people of Seaford request that they be permitted... dating from [c. 1380] 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 8/215/10715
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Seaford.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Seaford request that they be permitted to pay only a third of their usual fifteenth of £7 10s. since their houses, goods and chattels were burned and destroyed by the French, and that they be granted a supersedeas to the collectors of the last fifteenth for the remainder of the amount.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Seaford, Sussex
- France.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1380, with reference to CCR 1377-81, p. 387, a 1380 writ of supersedeas in favour of the burgesses of Seaford in accordance with this petition.
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.387 (supersedeas in favour of Seaford in accordance with the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334271/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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