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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Liege people of the town of Great Yarmouth. King and council. [Petition in four parts:]1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/320/E434
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/320/E434
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Liege people of the town of Great Yarmouth.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in four parts:]1) The people show that the people of Winchelsea and Rye have entered an alliance to destroy the navy of Great Yarmouth and have equipped their ships and on a certain day attacked a ship of Yarmouth called took their goods into their barge and killed and wounded many of the crew in contempt of the king and against his peace.2) They complain of a similar attack on a ship called 'le Amlete de Jernem''.3) They complain of the people of the ports who brought their goods and merchandises to the vills of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston at the time of the fair of Great Yarmouth, and held a fair and market to the great impoverishment of the town of Great Yarmouth.4) They complain of the actions of the people of the ports who take only customs from each ship coming to Great Yarmouth during its fair, but now take it at other times. They request remedy having regard for their voluntary service to the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition was delivered by . . . of Yarmouth to the king on behalf of the people of Yarmouth at the third week of Easter in the . . . year at Westminster and upon this the king wishes to have advice and will say his will, and likewise to the petition of the of the Cinque Ports delivered to him against those of Yarmouth is attached to it.
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Winchelsea, [Sussex]
- Rye, [Sussex]
- Little Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Gorleston, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- People of Winchelsea
- People of Rye.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1316 as it seems likely that it is a contemporary counter petition of SC 8/320/E433. In addition the king intervened in the dispute as it escalated in that same year as is made clear in an entry in the patent rolls of 14 July 1316 (CPR 1313-17, p.514). It is possible that this petition and the petition that precedes it are the grievances submitted by both parties referred to in the patent roll entry.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the petition of the barons of the Cinque Ports relating to this petition, see SC 8/320/E433
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.514 (proclamations to both parties that they are not to attempt anything against each other under pain of forfeiture, and detail of king's intervention in the dispute)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529486/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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