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QUIET ENJOYMENT OF PRIVILEGES

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Title: QUIET ENJOYMENT OF PRIVILEGES
Note: This section contains warrants for the protection and enforcement of rights and privileges, many conferred by royal charters, the terms of which are occasionally given in detail. (File 3 no. 28.) The majority concern towns or churches with special privileges, exemption from suit at the court of shire or hundred, (File 2 no. 11.) rights of common of pasture, (File 1 no. 17.) freedom to trade in a town (File 1 no. 11.) and right of wreck (File 3 no. 17.) among them. Many of the writs deal with freedom from tolls and other taxes; towns whose charters gave such exemptions had to defend their rights against rivals, as the Hull traders found in Scarborough (File 1 no. 19.) and the men of Norwich in both Yarmouth (File 5 no. 3.) and London. (File 2 no. 2.) A few similar items addressed to escheators have been included in Certiorari (Escheators) (C257).
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