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Community of Norfolk and Suffolk. King and council. The community of Norfolk and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/330

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Reference
SC 8/7/330
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community of Norfolk and Suffolk complain that the prior of Our Lady of Thetford has a charter in which it is contained that neither the prior or any of his tenants, free or villein, is to be impleaded in any court other than the king's court or the prior's own court. But there are many pleas which can only be heard in the courts of the county, shire or hundred where the trespass was committed: so the prior and his men commit crimes more boldly, knowing that they will not be punished. They request a remedy, as this item in the charter is against law and reason, and greatly oppresses the community.
Nature of endorsement
Anyone who feels himself to be harmed by this should sue in Chancery and have a remedy there at common law.
Places mentioned
Norfolk
Suffolk
Thefford (Thetford), Norfolk.
People mentioned
Prior of Our Lady of Thetford.
Note
One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6161
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), p.414a-b, no. 157 (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. 157 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060453/

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