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Mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of the town of Kingston upon Hull Commons in parliament...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1294

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This record is about the Mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of the town of Kingston upon Hull Commons in parliament... dating from [1432-1433] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/26/1294
Date
[1432-1433]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of the town of Kingston upon Hull
Addressees
Commons in parliament
Nature of request
The petitioners state that Edward I granted to them by his letters patent that the town be a free borough with all the things pertaining to a free borough, and that the men of the town be free burgesses, with right to dispose of their lands and tenements in the town by their last will; after this Edward III granted to them by his letters patent that they be able to elect a mayor and four bailiffs, and that they be able to plead and take writs of fresh force of any tenant in the town and make execution of the assizes in the borough. The petitioners ask the commons to request that the king grant that all the devises of land made after the date of Edward I's letters patent to whatsoever persons to whom they were made which are not annulled by recovery at law, be good and effectual in the law; and that they be able to devise lands and tenements within the town to whomever they like except in mortmain, and that they be good and effectual in the law; and also that the mayor and bailiffs be able to hold before them in the court of the king all manner of assizes of fresh force of whatsoever lands and tenements within the town.
Nature of endorsement
No endorsement.
Places mentioned
Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
People mentioned
Edward I, King of England
Edward III, King of England
Richard II, King of England
Henry IV, King of England
Note
The petition is dated by the title in Rot. Parl. IV, p.458 to 11 Henry VI, making this 1432-3.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4652
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), p.468a (no.11) (edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061470/

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