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| Type | Petition |
| Unique Identifying Text | TNA SC 8/20/953 |
| Archive name | The National Archives (London) |
| Published source (may be more than one) | English summary taken from the TNA catalogue entry, compiled as part of the AHRC project 'Medieval Petitions: A Catalogue of Exchequer, Chancery and Gascon petitions in the National Archives', led by W. Mark Ormrod (2006-7) |
| Text (English translation) | The collectors of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton parliament in the diocese of London, that is, in the archdeaconries of Essex, Middlesex, Colchester and London, state that they have collected part of the first payment and part of the second, but that because of the recent uprising, many people in the diocese who are in arrears with their payment, have refused to pay the remainder, and many have fled, and many have died, and although the collectors have sued against them by ecclesiastical censure to the point of excommunication, and they are still excommunicated, they do not dare to sue by writ of significavit or otherwise, on pain of death. They ask that they may be able to account only for what they have received, and that they might be discharged of the rest. Response: The said collectors, and each of them, are to be charged on their oath on their account in the Exchequer to make satisfaction and payment without delay for what they have received from the said subsidy, and, as for the remainder of the subsidy, which they have not levied for the alleged reasons, they are to be completely discharged on their account, of the king's grace. |
| General Information | [1381] This petition is clearly from the aftermath of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and was probably presented at the parliament of November 1381. The Northampton parliament was held in November 1380: the tax referred to by the collectors in this petition as a tenth was in fact the clerical poll tax granted by the south province at a convocation held in Northampton at the time of the Northampton parliament: CFR 1377-83, p. 223. |
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| ID | Summary | Description | Type | Go to incidents page |
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| 3759 | Petition from the collectors of the tenth in the diocese of London | The collectors of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton parliament in the diocese of London, that is, in the archdeaconries of Essex, Middlesex, Colchester and London, state that they have collected part of the first payment and part of the second, but that because of the recent uprising, many people in the diocese who are in arrears with their payment, have refused to pay the remainder, and many have fled, and many have died, and although the collectors have sued against them by ecclesiastical censure to the point of excommunication, and they are still excommunicated, they do not dare to sue by writ of significavit or otherwise, on pain of death. They ask that they may be able to account only for what they have received, and that they might be discharged of the rest. | Go to incidents page |
