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People of Dunwich. King and council. Complaint of the violence committed against...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/519

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Reference
SC 8/11/519
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
People of Dunwich.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Complaint of the violence committed against the men of Dunwich by the Clavering brothers.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Dunwich, [Suffolk].
People mentioned
John de Claveryng (Clavering)
Edmund de Claveryng (Clavering).
Note
The petition would seem to date to the months before 18 October 1331 when the king ordered the men of Dunwich and the Clavering brothers to desist from their trouble making in the city, and to appear before the king in Chancery at Westminster (CCR 1330-33, pp.360-1). The dispute between the Claverings and the people of Dunwich had already been the subject of a lengthy petition in 1330 (Rot. Parl., vol II, p. 44a-b (no.60)): it is suggested here that the present petition follows that printed in Rot Parl and was the one that provoked the royal action of 1331.
Related material

For a petition that may have been attached to this see SC 8/107/5342

For another petition on the same matter by the same petitioners see SC 8/158/7891

For a related petition see SC 8/257/12844

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2846
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.360-1 (order to the Claveryng brothers to desist from their threats)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.44a-b (no.60) (full edition of another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter)
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