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Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Northburgh Roger King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/508

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Reference
SC 8/11/508
Date
[1328]
Description
Petitioners
Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Name(s)
Northburgh, Roger
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
Nature of request
The bishop requests suitable remedy concerning a franchise that his predecessors were accustomed to have that their tenants of Foregate Street in the suburb of Chester had hand and horse mills to mill their corn and malt until lately the farmers of the mills and the king's ministers of Chester have forced them to mill at the king's mill against the bishop's will to the prejudice and disinheritance of his church.
Nature of endorsement
Let a writ be sent to the justiciar containing the effect of the petition that if it be so, then he should permit it etc., and afterwards let the process continue.
Places mentioned
Chester, [Cheshire]
Forgate Street, [Chester, Cheshire].
Note
The petition is dated to 1328 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.13 which records that this is from a Hale manuscript of petitions in parliament of 2 Edward III.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1520
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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.26b (no.42) (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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 42 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060635/

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