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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Poor people of Lewisham and Greenwich. King and council. The poor people of Lewisham...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/331/15648
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This record is about the Poor people of Lewisham and Greenwich. King and council. The poor people of Lewisham... dating from [1330] 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 8/331/15648
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Poor people of Lewisham and Greenwich.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The poor people of Lewisham and Greenwich request remedy because the abbot of Ghent was given the barton of Lewisham in ancient times, and was to give in alms every Monday and Friday a halfpenny to each poor person who came there, but this has not been done for 16 years.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the King.2) This petition should be sent before the justices assigned to hold the King's pleas who should be ordered to cause the abbot or his proctor to be summoned before them to show why they have not paid the alms, and justice should be done in this matter.
- Places mentioned
- Lewisham, [Kent]
- Greenwich, [Kent]
- Ghent, [Belgium].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Ghent.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1330 in PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.75.
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.49b (no.75) (edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.75 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683059/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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