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Mayor and burgesses of Hedon in Holderness King and council The Mayor and burgesses...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/51/2527

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This record is about the Mayor and burgesses of Hedon in Holderness King and council The Mayor and burgesses... dating from [1375-1376] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/51/2527
Date
[1375-1376]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and burgesses of Hedon in Holderness
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The Mayor and burgesses of Hedon in Holderness state that their town is in danger of ruin for want of repair of the water-courses that should cleanse their tidal waters and have always done, and that a commission has been granted to Roger Fulthorp and Thomas Tyrell and other wise men to inquire into the faults in these water-courses, and that they have begun their work. They ask that no supersedeas be granted to halt the work of this commission.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Hedon, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Holderness, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
People mentioned
Roger Fulthorp
Thomas Tyrell
Note
CCR 1374-7::p.440 is dated at Westminster, 16 August 1376. The petition mentioned is not this one, as it is from the tenants of the manor of Burstwick, but this is clearly the same inquiry.The original commission, CPR 1374-7 p.161, is dated at Westminster, 14 November 1375. The petition must date from between the two, most probably from 1376.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3977
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIV, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.440 (order to Roger de Fulthorp to continue his inquiry, notwithstanding an unlawful presentment made before him, which the tenants of the manor of Burstwick complain is holding up the inquiry)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.161 (commission to Roger de Fulthorp, Thomas Tyrell and others to investigate certain watercourses between Camerton and Burstwick and Hedon and Paull)
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