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People of Maugersbury. King and council The people request remedy as Bedford and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/63/3128

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Reference
SC 8/63/3128
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
People of Maugersbury.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The people request remedy as Bedford and the others are seised in fee of the great part of the lands and tenements in the vill and grow corn and pasture their animals on the land. However they live in Stowe, and take their corn from the vill and do not wish to contribute to the wool tax and fifteenth to the people's great damage.
Nature of endorsement
They should have a writ to the collectors of wools and fifteenths that the corn growing in the vill of Maugersbury and of the beasts fed there be chargeable with those of the same vill notwithstanding that the corn and beasts are removed from the vill as reason demands.
Places mentioned
Maugersbury, [Gloucestershire]
Stowe St Edward (Stow on the Wold), [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Walter de Bedoforde (Bedford)
William Rolf
William Hugwes (Hughes)
John Cledon
Mariote Agare
William Saundres
Agnes Basset
Thomas atte Bourne
John Midwyntur (Midwinter)
John Reger
Hugh Cledone
William Somoner
Walter Cledon.
Note
The petition is dated to 1348 in PROME, parliament of January 1348, appendix no. 11.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5654
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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.177a (no.7) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January 1348, Appendix, no. 11 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106891/

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