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Community of Bristol, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/659

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This record is about the Community of Bristol, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire... dating from [1377] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/14/659
Date
[1377]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Bristol, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community complain that the course of the river Severn is restricted by fish-weirs so that boats cannot easily pass, and many have been lost, and the adjacent meadows and lands are flooded to the great damage of the people. They request that a remedy be ordained.
Nature of endorsement
Let the statute made before this hour be held and kept.
Places mentioned
Bristuyt (Bristol), [Gloucestershire]
Gloucestershire
Worcestershire
Herefordshire
Shropshire
Staffordshire
River Severn.
Note
This survives as a transcript from common petitions that are dated in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.361 to the parliament held at Westminster on the quindene of St Hillary 1377. See also PROME, parliament of January-March 1377, appendix, no. 6.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 955
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.372a (no.lv) (edition of petition as common petition on parliament roll with a different response)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.46 (edition of another petition on the same matter)
  • 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-March 1377, appendix, no. 6 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060800/

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