People of the vill of Weobley in the county of Hereford. Council. The people show...

Petitioners

People of the vill of Weobley in the county of Hereford.

Addressees

Council.

Nature of request

The people show that they have paid to the king the tax of the fifteenth, and wool amounting to three fifteenth as other vills of the county have done by which they are greatly impoverished. Nevertheless a writ came to levy £10 for hobblers though they are not a city or borough, to their ruin. They request that a remedy is ordained for this mischief otherwise they cannot live, and are agreed that they will leave the vill.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.

Places mentioned

Weobley, Herefordshire.

For an almost identical petition from Ledbury (Herefordshire) see SC 8/13/615

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.182a-b (no.29) (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. 32 (summary of petition)