Alderman and twenty-three people of Bury St Edmunds. King and lords of parliament....

Petitioners

Alderman and twenty-three people of Bury St Edmunds.

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Nature of request

The Alderman and twenty-three people of Bury St Edmunds state that they have come to appear before the council, to answer concerning the late rebellion in their town, of which they were never guilty, as was proved before the Earl of Suffolk and other justices given a commission to inquire into this; because of which rebellion, the whole town has been exempted from the king's grace, on the allegations of certain people made at the last parliament. They request that the king clarify this exemption by stating that he and parliament wish to exempt only the malefactors, so that the innocent are not ruined for others' misdeeds, as the malefactors have been indicted by the people of the town before the said earl.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Bury (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk].

People mentioned

[William Ufford], Earl of Suffolk.

For a related petition from the Prior and convent of Bury St Edmunds is SC 8/20/967

A duplicate petition is SC 8/20/971

For transcript, see no.42 of PRO 31/7/109

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/983

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.86 (commission of the peace and to arrest and inquire into disturbances in Suffolk, issued to William Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, and others, December 1381)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.175a, no. 2 (full edition of original petition) & pp.170b-172a (transcription of related petition and associated business on parliament roll)