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Poor lieges and inhabitants of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/218/10868

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SC 8/218/10868
Date
[1390]
Description
Petitioners
Poor lieges and inhabitants of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The people of the three northern counties request to be relieved of payment of the fifteenth granted at the last parliament at Cambridge, since their goods and chattels are frequently burnt and destroyed by Scottish raids, and they are on the point of abandoning the land without royal assistance.
Nature of endorsement
They shall have respite until the month of Michaelmas, and let commissions be ordained to enquire in to the wasted lands.For Northumberland, the Earl Marshal, Mathew Redman, Thomas de Umfraville, John de Mitford; For Cumberland, the Bishop of Carlisle, Lord Roos, Lord Neville, John de Irby, Amand Manceux; For Westmorland, Lord Clifford, Richard de Scrope, W. Lanc', William Ormesheud.
Places mentioned
Northumberland
Cumberland
Westmorland.
People mentioned
[Thomas Mowbray], Earl Marshal
Mathew de Redman
Thomas de Umfraville
John de Mitford
[Thomas Appleby], Bishop of Carlisle
[John de Roos], Lord Roos
[Ralph de Neville], Lord Neville
John de Irby
Amand Manceux
[Thomas de Clifford], Lord Clifford
Richard de Scrope
William Lancaster
William Ormesheud (Ormeshead).
Note
Dated on the guard, and by Fraser, to 1390, as remission was granted on 1 March 1390, and the petition clearly refers back to the fifteenth granted at the 1388 Cambridge parliament.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.203-4 (requested remission)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.154-155 (no.119) (full edition and summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334426/

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