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Commons of Warwickshire. King and council. The commons of Warwickshire state that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/855

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Reference
SC 8/18/855
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Commons of Warwickshire.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The commons of Warwickshire state that John de Stonore and Robert de Malberthorp were appointed, in the time of the king's father, to inquire into the assessors of the eighteenth and twentieth in Warwickshire, after they had rendered their account, and that they ordered a reassessment, as the original one had been too low. To avoid the hardship that would arise from that, the commons and the assessors made fine before the justices in 800 marks, of which only £80 remains unpaid. They request that they might be acquitted of the rest, as the fine was made under duress, and they are greatly impoverished by nobles coming there, staying and mounting expeditions, both in the king's father's time and in his own.
Nature of endorsement
They are to be pardoned the arrears, for the king's soul.
Places mentioned
Warwickshire.
People mentioned
John de Stonore (Stonor), justice
Robert de Malberthorp (Mablethorpe), justice.
Note
CPR 1330-4, p.195 is dated at Westminster, 16 October 1331; CPR 1330-4, p.197 is dated at Westminster, 13 October 1331. CCR 1330-3, p.268 is also dated at Westminster, 13 October 1331.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8492
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.268 (instructions to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to acquit the petitioners of the arrears)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.195 (pardon to the petitioners of the arrears mentioned in the petition) & p.197 (vacated copy of pardon to the petitioners of the arrears mentioned in the petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.417a, no.221 (full edition of original petition)
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