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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Kirkby in Kendal. King and council. The people request that they can be...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/322/E506
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This record is about the People of Kirkby in Kendal. King and council. The people request that they can be... dating from [c. 1290-c. 1307] 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 8/322/E506
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1290-c. 1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Kirkby in Kendal.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people request that they can be assessed according to the goods and chattels that they have now, as there town together with their goods and chattels were burnt and they are all poor and beggars. The assessors came and wished to tax them according to their possessions at Michaelmas not wishing to have regard to what happened to them a month later.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let nothing be done.
- Places mentioned
- Kirkby in Kendal (Kendal), [Westmorland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1290-c. 1307 as the petition is dated to 'temp. Edw. I' by Fraser, and the fire seems to have been a natural occurrence, a petition of a later date being likely to have referred to burning by the Scots.
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.105-6 (no.71) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529558/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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