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Commons in parliament. King. The commons state that the River Severn is common to...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1241

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Reference
SC 8/25/1241
Date
[1431]
Description
Petitioners
Commons in parliament.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The commons state that the River Severn is common to all the king's lieges to transport their merchandise to places adjoining the river on boats and floats. Now Welshmen and other people residing near the river have assembled in great numbers arrayed for war and taken floats and broken them up, and assaulted the people with them, with the intent that people hire the Welshmen for great sums of money to carry their merchandise to the great impoverishment of the king's lieges if they do not have hasty remedy. They request that it be ordained that the lieges have free passage on the river with floats without any disturbance, and if they are disturbed by the Welshmen that they have their suits and recovery before justice of the peace of the counties adjacent to the place where the trespass occurred, and the justice have the power to hear and determine (oyer and terminer) such trespasses, and the damaged party have a speedy process.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
River Severn
Bristol, [Gloucestershire]
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
Worcester, [Worcestershire].
Note
Dated to 1431 by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.367 where it is noted that the petition comes from the parliament held at Westminster on Fiday next before the feast of St Hillary, 9 Hen. VI (January 1431).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7669
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.37 (brief calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.379a (no.xi) (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061415/

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