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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Oxford. King and council 1) The burgesses request remedy concerning...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/63/3146
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/63/3146
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Oxford.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- 1) The burgesses request remedy concerning the wrong and trespass made to them by the chancellor and university. Sixty-two burgesses swear each year to sell lawful merchandise, and by this oath prosecute those burgesses at will.2) They complain further that they attract royal pleas, that whereas clerks are indicted of felony or attached for things done against the peace, the chancellor and university make process before them against the indictors and the bailiffs and fine them at will so that many are impoverished, and some leave the town.3) They also proceed against the brewers of the town by means of the their privileges until they make a fine, extorting money from sellers of wine.4) They have cognizance of bailiffs by grant of the king, and if the bailiffs do not do their will they oust them from their bailiwick so that the king's peace is poorly guarded.5) If any burgess complain in the king's court they make process against them by feigned reasons in many ways as against their privileges and excommunicate and imprison them and make satisfaction for their will until they release their suit.6) They complain of the cessions which are repugnant to the law whereof many men are impoverished in the town which have been forbidden by order of the king that they stop these duresses for the profit of the town and the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Chancellor and university of Oxford
- Robert de Wormenhale
- Philip de Euw
- Steven de Adyngton
- Andrew de Wormenhale
- Henry Jolyf
- John Stene
- Walter le Taverner
- Roger Mynkan, Bailiff
- John le Peyntour.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition must postdate SC 8/63/3145, a copy of a writ formerly attached to it that dates to 9 August 1320. The petition is unlikely to be much later so a date of c. 1320 seems reasonable.
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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 6306
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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)
- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.122-3 (full calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106909/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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