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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Northumberland. King. The commons request that the king consider their...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/226/11263
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This record is about the Commons of Northumberland. King. The commons request that the king consider their... dating from [1382] 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 8/226/11263
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1382]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Northumberland.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The commons request that the king consider their poverty and remit the subsidy of 3 groats [poll tax] granted at the parliament of Northampton which they cannot pay if they are to pay the fifteenth granted in the present parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- The demand for the groats should cease until the fifteenth has been levied in the county, and let there be a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer of to cease their demands in the meantime until they have another order.
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland
- Northampton, [Northamptonshire].
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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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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.221-222 (no.199) (full edition of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.436 (order to the collectors to proceed in their collection though one of their number was missing)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334823/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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