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People of the county of Nottinghamshire. King and council. The people of the county...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/374

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Reference
SC 8/8/374
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
People of the county of Nottinghamshire.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people of the county of Nottinghamshire, passing between Kelham and Newark, request a remedy for the accroachment of the king's highway between these two places by the Lady of Averham, who demands heavy charges from the people using it, although it has been free for all people passing that way from time immemorial.
Nature of endorsement
Certain faithful people are to be appointed, with the sheriff, to enquire into the contents of the petition and to inform the king of this in Chancery; and what is just will be done there.
Places mentioned
Kelm (Kelham), Nottinghamshire
Newark, Nottinghamshire
Egrum (Averham), [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
[Agnes de Sutton] Lady of Averham.
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 6212
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.424b, no.31 (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. 31 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060498/

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