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Burgesses of Dunwich. King and council. The burgesses of Dunwich state that from...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1010

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Reference
SC 8/21/1010
Date
[? 1390]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses of Dunwich.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The burgesses of Dunwich state that from time immemorial they have had all the profits, such as customs and subsidies, from merchandise coming by sea to the port of their town, in aid of their farm, but that now the people of Walberswick, Southwold and Blythburgh, and the Prior of Blythburgh, are bringing various merchandise by sea to the said port, and holding their fairs and markets in the mouth of the port, taking the profits without any warrant from the king or anyone else. They request a writ to make proclamation that no-one is to hold a fair or market in the harbour or elsewhere on land within their franchises, without warrant, on pain of forfeiture of their goods; but that they are to take their goods to Dunwich for sale there, as before.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Dunwich, [Suffolk]
Walberswick, [Suffolk]
Southwold, [Suffolk]
Bliburgh (Blythburgh), [Suffolk].
People mentioned
Prior of Blythburgh.
Note
CCR 1389-92 p.228 is dated at Westminster, 12 December 1390. It makes no mention of fairs or markets however, and might not be the result of this petition.
Related material

A related petition is SC 8/306/15285

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2602
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.228 (writ to the sheriff of Suffolk, to cause proclamation to be made that no-one of Blythburgh, Southwold or Walberswick shall hinder the burgesses of Dunwich from receiving the customs etc. due to them)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.254a-b (no. 7) (full edition of original petition)
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