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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Newcastle upon Tyne. King and council. The commons of Newcastle upon Tyne...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13003
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/261/13003
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1343]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commons of Newcastle upon Tyne state that they have suffered greatly from the great sums demanded of them by William de Kildesby, and from the heavy taxes imposed upon them despite the great destruction and losses inflicted upon them by the Scots and in other ways, and ask that they might be pardoned the 108 sacks of wool demanded from them as their share of the 30000 sacks of wool granted by the commons for the last two years. They also ask that the record and process held before Thomas Surteys and his companions might be examined, and that the onerous fines might be reduced according to the grant made to them by the King before he left for Brittany, and the reduced sums allowed against the debt owed to them by the King.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Scotland
- Britanny, [France].
- People mentioned
- William de Kildesby
- Thomas Surteys (Surtees)
- [John Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury
- [William de Clinton], Earl of Huntingdon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The grant of two ninths and fifteenths made in the parliament of March 1340 was commuted into a grant of 30000 sacks of wool in the parliament of April 1341. CPR 1340-3 pp.452-3 is dated 6 April 1342, and would seem to be the commission referred to here. CCR 1343-6 p.195 is dated 15 November 1343, p.213 is dated 2 December 1343, and p.558 is dated 17 March 1345. All these suggest a date of c. 1343 for the 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)
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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.218-19 (no.195) (full edition of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1343-1346, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.195 (appointment in Newcastle of collectors for the grant of 30000 sacks of wool and for the previous grant of a ninth, as they have not yet been collected) & p.213 (order to supersede the demand made on Walran de Lomeleye for the duplicate of a fine he made before William de Kildesby) & p.558 (order to supersede the demand made on Richard Scot for a fine made before William de Kildesby)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1340-1343, (Public Record Office, 1900), pp.452-3 (commission to Thomas Surteys and others to inquire into various allegations of misconduct made against the people of Newcastle)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516947/
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