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People of the town of Bodmin in Cornwall. King and council. The people show that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/608

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Reference
SC 8/13/608
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
People of the town of Bodmin in Cornwall.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people show that they were granted a charter by the king that they be able to freely purchase all manner of merchandise in Cornwall, which right they had until the ministers of the prince disturbed them, preventing them from buying tin on pain of forfeiture of the tin and imprisonment. They have sued bills to the king at Calais requesting remedy who ordered the prince and his council to do law and reason to them according to their charters. The prince ordered their charters, confirmations and petitions concerning their claim to be viewed and the law be ordained on this so that no one was disinherited of their rights. The people sued until they were answered, but were told to sue in another place, so that they request that the king ordain a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
It is the free will of the prince where tin is sold, and thus it was answered in full parliament.
Places mentioned
Bodmin, Cornwall
Cornwall
Calais, [France].
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
Edward [of Woodstock], Prince of Wales
Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishop of Winchester
Peter de Gildesburgh (Guilsborough)
William de Sharsshull (Shareshull).
Note
This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 24.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/50/2482

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 420
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.180a (no.20) (full edition of a later copy of 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 24 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060747/

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