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Tenants and commonalty of Bowland in the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/15/723

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This record is about the Tenants and commonalty of Bowland in the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire King... dating from [1331] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/15/723
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Tenants and commonalty of Bowland in the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The tenants and commonalty show that Adam de Clitheroe with 300 armed men came and took the venison of the king and wounded the foresters there to the great consternation of the people and the country, and entered the vaccaries in these parts, and destroyed all their livestock so that they cannot endure or live without speedy remedy. They request that the king, to save his estate, and stop such riots in times to come, ordain a good and suitable remedy on Clitheroe and his allies in those parts.
Nature of endorsement
Let certain people be assigned to hear and determine (oyer and terminer) for the king the trespass made of his venison, and also hear and determine each complaint of the tenants who wish to complain of Clitheroe and the others.
Places mentioned
Bowland, [Lancashire, Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Adam de Cliderhou (Clitheroe).
Note
This is likely to date to 1331 when a commission of oyer and terminer was issued concerning trespasses in the free chase of Bowland. However this only refers to Yorkshire, and the petition refers to both Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 422
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.206 (commission of oyer and terminer concerning trespasses in the forest of Bowland)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.390b (no.69) (full edition of original petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060864/

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