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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Knights, esquires, and commons of Northumberland. [King] [This petition is fragmentary]...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/339/15953
What’s it about?
This record is about the Knights, esquires, and commons of Northumberland. [King] [This petition is fragmentary]... dating from [? 1401] 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 8/339/15953
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1401]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Knights, esquires, and commons of Northumberland.
- Addressees
- [King]
- Nature of request
- [This petition is fragmentary] . . . his liege knights and esquires, and the poor commons of the county of Northumberland, may it please him of his gracious lordship to pardon the said petitioners . . . considering the great destructions both by war and by disease of livestock and great accumulations of people who have by various . . . live and by which the people of the said county are greatly impoverished, and a great number of them fully intend to leave the realm if they are . . . truly. A great part of the said knights and esquires have put their seals to these present letters.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition would seem likely to be a request for pardon of a grant of taxation, and the hand and language would suggest that CPR 1399-1401 p.444, dated 12 March 1401, may well be the response.
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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, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.444 (grant to the men of Northumberland, in consideration of their great losses, that they shall be quit of the tenth and fifteenth granted in the last parliament)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736434/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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