People of Shropshire and Cheshire. King and council. They state that the common way...

Petitioners

People of Shropshire and Cheshire.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

They state that the common way at Longford is filthy and flooded, so that those passing are impeded and endangered, and request pavage for three years, as was granted previously - for the way was so fouled that it could not be completely set right in such a short time.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.They are to have it of the king's special grace for three years.

Places mentioned

Shropshire

Cheshire

Le Longeforde de Bletcheleye (Longford), [Shropshire], Bletchley, [Shropshire].

For another petition on the same matter, see SC 8/5/236

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.137 (grant of pontage for three years to Hugh de Say, William de Heyshagh and Robert Parlebien)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.397a, no.57 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 57 (summary of references)