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Abbot and convent of Our Lady of York King and council The petitioners state that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1286
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Our Lady of York King and council The petitioners state that... dating from [1350-1351] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/26/1286
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1350-1351]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Our Lady of York
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that they have been wrongfully disturbed of their right in the borough of Bootham by the mayor and commonalty, it already being adjudged to them in parliament in the time Edward the king's grandfather, a great dispute has arisen over the borough, the petitioners suing by petition to the king for remedy. The borough was to be taken into the king's hands until the parties could come before the king to discuss the matter. A commission was made, and the escheator ordered to have livery of the borough. However the mayor and commonalty have menaced the escheator and by force have intimidated and hindered the petitioners. The petitioners request that the king by his commission make the chancellor, treasurer and others to hear and to have the final determination of the dispute, and that a writ be sent to sufficient men to take the borough into the king's hand in default of the escheator until the matter is settled.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wishes that this bill be executed as far as the law allows.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Bootham, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- People mentioned
- Mayor and commonalty of the city of York
- Thomas Ughtrede
- William Playnte
- Gerard Salvayn, Escheator of Yorkshire
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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 9026
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1349-1354, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.286 (writ to the escheator of the county of York to restore Bootham to the abbot and convent)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), pp.392-3 (commission of oyer and terminer into the matter)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.458a-b (another petition by the same petitioners complaining of the commons of Galtres forest claiming common in Bootham)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061461/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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