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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Richard de Byron, knight; Joan de Byron, wife of Richard de Byron. de Byron; de Byron...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1043
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/21/1043
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1391]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard de Byron, knight; Joan de Byron, wife of Richard de Byron.
- Name(s)
- de Byron; de Byron, Richard; Joan
- Addressees
- King and lords in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Richard de Byron, knight, and Joan his wife ask that an illegal commission which has enabled the Mayor and bailiffs of Nottingham to destroy a gorce in the River Trent, attached to their water-mill at Colwick, be revoked, and that they be given a remedy in the present parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- When this petition had been read in parliament, and the commission which it mentions, together with the process following on from this and the supplicants' evidence, carefully examined by the justices, and when they had reported back to parliament, that the commission was improperly made and against the law, and that the supplicants had shown several pieces of evidence of record concerning their right in this matter, it was decided in parliament that the commission, and all the process following it, should be completely repealed and annulled, and that the supplicants should be able to rebuild their gorce, freely and without impediment from the Mayor, bailiffs and community of Nottingham, or from any others, and that a new commission should be given to disinterested persons to enquire into the matter and to report to Chancery, if any interested person wishes to pursue this.
- Places mentioned
- Colwick, [Nottinghamshire]
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- Mayor and bailiffs of Nottingham
- John de Kentwod (Kentwood).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1388-92 pp.442-3 is dated at Westminster, 1 June 1391. The petition mentions parliament, so would have been presented at the next parliament, the one held at Westminster in November 1391. This tallies with a note (probably later) at the foot of the dorse, which reads 'xv R II'.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 824
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), pp.442-3 (the commission mentioned in the petition, into whether Richard Byron is obstructing the river and preventing the passage of shipping)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.298a-b (no.4) (full edition of original petition)
- The King's Council in England during the Middle Ages, J.F. Baldwin, (, 1913), pp.317-8 (edition and discussion of endorsement)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061206/
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