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 the University of Cambridge make five requests concerning the charter of their privileges:1) That it might be confirmed with the clause 'licet'.2) That a clause concerning regrators should be amended to say that they should be amerced before the Chancellor.3) That they might be able to sell wines at London prices, plus halfpence a gallon for carriage, as is done in Oxford.4) That it should no longer be necessary for trespassers convicted and adjudged to prison before the Chancellor to be received by the Mayor and bailiffs.5) that, if the Mayor does not attend the Hospital of St John for the forfeiture of regrated victuals, the Chancellor or his lieutenant should have power to make execution of this alone.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]

London

Oxford, [Oxfordshire].

People mentioned

Mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge.

For a related petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/19/913

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.264 (grant to the Chancellor of cognizance of regrators and forestallers, in accordance with the letters patent of previous kings) & p.289 (grant to the Chancellor of jurisdiction for punishment of breaches of the assize of bread, win, ale and other victuals in Cambridge, in default of the mayor) & p.349 (extension of this grant for five years)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.254b (no. 8) (full edition of original petition)