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Lords and their tenants holding lands near cities and boroughs. King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/653

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This record is about the Lords and their tenants holding lands near cities and boroughs. King and council.... dating from [1376] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/14/653
Date
[1376]
Description
Petitioners
Lords and their tenants holding lands near cities and boroughs.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners state that because of the lack of good governance, great quantities of the commons of the cities and boroughs have come with force and arms and destroyed their enclosures, commoned their beasts in the fields of the petitioners though they have sufficient common on their own wastes, and few of them have any lands lying with those of the petitioners from which the petitioners can profit by intercommoning. The petitioners request that the king and council ordain a suitable remedy that the commons unless they have lands lying with those of the petitioners are not able to common in their lands; and also to restrain the commons from rioting in the future, and to put a grievous penalty on those who cause the commons to rise up.
Nature of endorsement
Before the great council.
Note
This survives as a transcript from common petitions that are dated in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.321 to the parliament held at Westminster on 28 April 1376; see also PROME, parliament of 1376, appendix, no. 5.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3187
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.347a (no. lxxxi) (full edition of petition as common petition on parliament roll)
  • 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 1376, appendix, no. 5 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060794/

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