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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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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This record is about the People of the city of York. King and council. The people request that the king grant... dating from [1322] 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 8/2/73
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an earlier petition on same subject, see SC 8/7/314
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 8984
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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)
- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060186/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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