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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Dunwich. Chancellor. The people of Dunwich, who paid £65 yearly for...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/306/15285
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This record is about the People of Dunwich. Chancellor. The people of Dunwich, who paid £65 yearly for... dating from [1390] 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 8/306/15285
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1390]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Dunwich.
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- The people of Dunwich, who paid £65 yearly for their fee farm until the 31st year of Edward III [1357] when the farm was reduced to £14 10s 9d because the town had been destroyed by a coastal storm, request that whereas their port's channel has often been changed by such storms and now runs adjacent to the town of Southwold, and recently the people of Southwold, by the assent of Robert, have taken the customs and impositions from vessels coming to the port, that the chancellor cause Robert to appear before him to explain why the King and people of Dunwich should be denied these profits or that the King take Dunwich into his hand forever and discharge the petitioners from their fee farm.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Dunwich, [Suffolk]
- Southwold, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- [William de Wykeham, bishop of Winchester], chancellor
- Edward [III], King of England
- Robert ....
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1390, with reference to CCR 1389-92, p. 228, a writ of aid upon this petition.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/21/1010
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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. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.228 (writ of aid upon this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518340/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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