Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University. King and council. The chancellor...

Petitioners

Chancellor and scholars of Cambridge University.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The chancellor and scholars of Cambridge state that at the last parliament held at Gloucester the king granted them the punishment of vendors of victuals, and of false weights and measures, in default of the mayor, but that the mayor and bailiffs, and others, to cover their guilt in this regard, conspire to prevent them putting it into execution. They request that the grant be confirmed to them, with the addition that they have the power to punish the mayor and bailiffs, if they are victuallers, while they are in office, and to inquire into them; and also that the Chancellor, and his deputies and delegates, might have power to see and examine the processes begun by them, and to hear and determine them according to the laws of the land.

Nature of endorsement

If it please the king, it seems to the lords of parliament that this is to be granted to them for the next five years. W de Beauchamp.It pleases the king, as the lords of parliament have ordained it.

Places mentioned

Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].

People mentioned

Mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge

W. de Beauchamp.

For a related petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/21/1012

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.349 (grant to the chancellor of the university, extending for five years the recent grant to him of jurisdiction for punishment of breaches of the assize of bread, win, ale and other victuals in Cambridge, in default of the mayor)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.68a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text modified by later editor, with reference to original petition)