Prior of St Frideswide, Oxford. King and lords of parliament. Prior of St Frideswide,...

Petitioners

Prior of St Frideswide, Oxford.

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Occupation

Prior of St Frideswide, Oxford

Nature of request

The Prior of St Frideswide, Oxford, states that although he has a fair at Oxford at the feast of St Frideswide, by the charters of the king's progenitors, and by his confirmation with clause licet, when people had assembled for the fair, the Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University made a solemn cry that no fair was to be held and that everyone was to leave, and destroyed the tents and pavilions of any who remained, and still greatly harass and oppress the house, to its final and perpetual destruction. They request a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Oxford.

People mentioned

Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University.

For transcript, see no.53 of PRO 31/7/109

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.162 (order to Chancellor and scholars of Oxford University to allow the prior of St Frideswide to hold his fair, October 1382)
• Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.149-105 (no. 110) (full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.176b (no.8) (full edition of original petition)