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People of the city of York. King and council. The people request that the king grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/73

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Reference
SC 8/2/73
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
People of the city of York.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people request that the king grant that they have the franchise according to the form established before the justices concerning their complaint about rivers being placed 'in defence'. They cited clauses in Magna Carta against rivers being put in defence and asked that the king prohibit it on the Ouse and Ure rivers between the city and Boroughbridge. However Richard, earl of Cornwall and Edmund his son had placed the rivers in defence. The mayor and commonalty had proved their franchise by the great assize of 24 knights, and they were seised of their franchise for 2 years, but after this Earl Edmund disseised them of it to the great damage of the city.
Nature of endorsement
They should have a writ of Chancery to bring the record and process of the Eyre so that the king can inspect it and decide how to act.
Places mentioned
Evrewyk (York)
Ponteburgh (Boroughbridge), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Use (River Ouse)
Yore ( River Ure).
People mentioned
Richard of Cornwall, King of Almain and Earl of Cornwall
Edmund [of Almain], Earl of Cornwall
the mayor and commonalty of the city of York
John de Vaus (Vaux).
Note
The petition is dated to 1322 as it is one of a collection of petitions published on pages 387 ff. of Rot. Parl., vol I, which all seem to date from around 1322.
Related material

For an earlier petition on same subject, see SC 8/7/314

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8984
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 410b-411a (no. 140) (transcription of petition on parliament roll) & p.305a (no.68) (Latin summary of related petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060186/

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