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c 246-255
Catalogue reference: C 65/6064
Date: 62 & 63 Vict
c 246-255
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WARRANTS FOR PROCLAMATIONS
Catalogue reference: Sub-series within C 255
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- The writs in this section all order the making of proclamations, either throughout particular counties or in particular towns, and were returned into Chancery once the proclamations had been made, with an endorsement to that effect. The subjects of the proclamations fall broadly into five main categories. Some are intended purely to give information on matters of general interest: the making of a truce, (File 1 no. 4.) or the enactment of statutes or ordinances. (E.g. File 3 nos. 43A, 56A-58, 62-73, 75; File 5 no. 1; File 9 nos. 7-11; File 12 nos. 6-10.) Some invite interested parties to be present on a certain date at a certain place to prosecute or make their claims against a certain individual or group of individuals: all merchants with claims against the subjects of a foreign prince, (E.g. File 2 no. 1; File 5 nos. 7, 23-25; File 9 nos. 190-22, 26.) or all persons with claims against the dissolved order of Templars (File 2 nos. 5, 10-29.) or against a rebel whose property was forfeit (File 3 no. 59.), or all persons with complaints against royal purveyors of wool. (File 3 nos. 43B-49.) Others require the attendance at a particular court of certain named defendants to answer charges being brought against them there: the earliest examples of proclamations in this category are all connected with political prosecutions (E.g. File 5 no. 8, File 6, File 7 nos. 1-22.), but later proclamation seems to have been used as a means of attempting to secure the appearance of ordinary defendants as well. (E.g. File 8 nos. 19, 20; File 10.) Proclamations were also used to forbid people doing things: the actions forbidden range from the disposal of offal in the river at Salisbury (File 5 no. 6.) to the selling of boats to foreigners, (File 3 no. 49A.) but most common are proclamations forbidding actions against the king's peace. Many of these proclamations cite the relevant sections of cap.3 of the statute of Northampton (2 Edward III). (E.g. File 4 nos. 38, 40, 41.) The crown also used proclamations to encourage or secure the performance of certain other types of action: to invite all those who wished to get their charters confirmed to go to Chancery to get them confirmed (File 3 nos. 38-40.), to invite all those indicted of felony but wishing to be pardoned to appear at Portsmouth ready to go abroad in the king's service (File 3 nos. 52-54.), or to command all those with lands by the sea to take up residence on those lands to ensure a proper defence of the sea coasts. (File 4 nos. 42-45.)
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C 255
Chancery Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Miscellaneous Files and Writs
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