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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Richard Lyons; William Elys (Ellis). Richard; Lyons; Elys (Ellis) William King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/662
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This record is about the Richard Lyons; William Elys (Ellis). Richard; Lyons; Elys (Ellis) William King and... dating from [1376-1377] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/14/662
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376-1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Lyons; William Elys (Ellis).
- Name(s)
- Richard; Lyons; Elys (Ellis), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Lyons and Elys show that at the last parliament held at Westminster Botild and Coupere complained that Lyons and Elys his deputy by colour of a commission made to Lyons by the king for the collection of the subsidy wrongfully took goods from English and foreign merchants in Suffolk and Norfolk to the damage of the king and the realm upon which they requested diverse commissions. Lyons and Elys request that the king and council summon and view that which is found by the justice and ordain a remedy as the law demands in deliverance of Lyons and Elys.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Lowestoft, [Suffolk]
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Norfolk
- Suffolk.
- People mentioned
- John Botild of Lowestoft
- William Coupere (Cooper) of Lowestoft
- [William Ufford], Earl of Suffolk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition seems to closely relate to a common petition of January 1377, though far more detail is included there. It also still seems to be in the reign of Edward III as the petition makes no mention in the reference to the parliament held at Westminster in April 1376 being in the reign of the last king, which the scribe is unlikely to have neglected if we had entered Richard II's reign. The petition therefore must date to later 1376 or 1377, and perhaps close to the January parliament in 1377, as the request by Lyons and Elys to be delivered may suggest that they were in prison at this time.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of SC 8/14/660 with an endorsement see SC 8/14/661
For a later related petition by Elys see SC 8/14/660
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5040
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.455 (acquittance and pardon of Elys)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.374b-375a (edition of an earlier related and unanswered common petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060803/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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