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Prior and convent of Bury St Edmunds. King and lords of parliament. The Prior and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/967

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Reference
SC 8/20/967
Date
[c. 1383]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
The Prior and convent of Bury St Edmunds state that the rebellious people of Bury St Edmunds committed great crimes against their church during the last uprising and also before, and still refuse to confess these or make satisfaction for them, but still persist in their rebellion. They request that the pope's appointee, who is the cause of these evils, should never be received as abbot, and that the rebels, his maintainers, should not be received into the king's protection until they have duly made redress for what they have done.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Seint Esmon de Bury (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk].
Note
Dated in a note on the guard to '? 1383'. It seems to be roughly contemporary with the petition recorded in Rot. Parl. vol. III, pp.170b-171a, which is enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Salisbury, April-May 1384, but perhaps rather earlier. That petition mentions several previous ordinances on the matter, and especially one made at the parliament held at Westminster in February-March 1383: the present petition may be the one presented to the 1383 parliament.
Related material

For transcript, see no.20 of PRO 31/7/107

A duplicate of that petition is SC 8/20/971

Another petition concerning the pope's appointee is SC 8/20/984

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/972

For a related petition from the Alderman and people of Bury St Edmunds is SC 8/20/968

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 796
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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.170b-172a (transcription of related petition and associated business on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061122/

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