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Community of Yorkshire. King and council. The community of Yorkshire states that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/357

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Reference
SC 8/8/357
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Yorkshire.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community of Yorkshire states that the king has granted his protection to several people who then remain in the country, delaying poor people of the county from their right in long suits, and deceiving the king and his people. They request that certain people of the county be assigned to enquire into people who say that they have gone to the war in Gascony, or will go, and do not, and to do what the law demands. Two justices are named below.
Nature of endorsement
Anyone who feels himself to have been harmed by this is to come to Chancery and name the person who has received protection and remained; and he will have a remedy.
Places mentioned
Yorkshire
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
Alexander de Cave, justice
Robert de Scoreburgh (Scarborough), justice.
Note
Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 9074
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.420b-412a, no.16 (full edition of a later copy of the 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. 416-429, no. 16 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060481/

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