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Poor people of the forest of Macclesfield. King. The people show that they hold certain...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/577

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This record is about the Poor people of the forest of Macclesfield. King. The people show that they hold certain... dating from [? 1335] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/12/577
Date
[? 1335]
Description
Petitioners
Poor people of the forest of Macclesfield.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people show that they hold certain lands of the king's demesne of his inheritance within his forest, and that they have never been tallaged, charged or taxed on it until the bailiffs of Chester distrained them for a tax made for the building of the bridge of Chester. The people request that the king order the justiciar of Chester that his heritage and demesne is not to be charged nor taxed in servitude without the king's order, and that they be allowed the delivery of their distraints which were wrongfully distrained against reason because at no time has such a thing been paid in the forest.
Nature of endorsement
They are to have a writ containing their allegation to the earl or to his justiciar of Chester upon the things contained in the petition, that they are to hear the complaint etc, and do justice.
Places mentioned
Macclesfield Forest, [Cheshire]
Cheshire.
People mentioned
Bailliffs of Chester
Justiciar of Chester.
Note
The petition is dated to 1335 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.90, noting these to be petitions in parliament for 9 Edward III.
Related material

For a near contemporary petition by the same petitioners on a related matter see SC 8/12/578

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5731
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.94b (no.21) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060715/

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