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Master, brothers, sisters, and poor sick people of the hospital of St Leonard, York....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1188

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This record is about the Master, brothers, sisters, and poor sick people of the hospital of St Leonard, York.... dating from [1423] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/24/1188
Date
[1423]
Description
Petitioners
Master, brothers, sisters, and poor sick people of the hospital of St Leonard, York.
Addressees
Commons of parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioners complain that their right to a thrave of corn from every plough ploughing in the counties of Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, within the province of York, has recently been in great part withheld by various people, and that they have no remedy at common law. They ask the commons to ask the King, the Duke of Gloucester, and the lords, to grant and ordain, by authority of parliament, that they might be able to levy and collect these thraves according to their former custom and usage, and that they might have writs and plaints of debt or detinue against those withholding the thraves, to recover them, with their damages. Provided that the parties with whom they have come to an agreement about this are not to be charged with more than is specified in the agreement.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Everwik (York)
Yorkshire
Cumberland
Westmorland
Lancashire
Province of York.
People mentioned
[Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester, Protector and Defender of England.
Note
This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster in October, 2 Henry VI (1423)(Rot. Parl. vol. IV pp.249b-250a).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8985
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.249b-250a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with response: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061359/

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