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Burgesses of Cambridge. King and council 1) The burgesses request remedy concerning...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4072
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/82/4072
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Cambridge.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- 1) The burgesses request remedy concerning the abuse of the privilege concerning trespasses committed by lay people to clerks, which privilege was granted by Henry III to the chancellor of the university.2) The burgesses complain that the burgesses and the masters of the university choose 2 of each to assess the hostels where the clerks reside, but the masters will not agree with the burgesses and force them to accept less for the hostels so that they lose a half, and threaten them with excommunication if they wont agree.3) The burgesses complain that whilst Henry III granted in favour of the university that no regrater of the town of Cambridge was to buy victuals before terce, the king reserved the forfeiture and amends to him and his ministers. However, the chancellor and masters of the university summoned lay people before them by sentence of excommunication and took great amercements.4) The burgesses complain that although no man is allowed to do it, the clerks buy up actions of debts and contracts and make the people answer them before the chancellor for many actions for which the people are unable to have prohibitions.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face]1) It is ordered to the chancellor and university by a writ containing all the complaint that they are not to do this against the tenor of the grant, nevertheless, if anyone complains he is to have a remedy for this.2) Because it is viewed by the council that both the masters and burgesses in this case ought to be sworn. Therefore it is ordered to the chancellor and university that both the masters and burgesses swear for the premises to be done.3) It is ordered as above that if it is thus then they are not to do these things.It is ordered as above that they be firmly prohibited from doing such things in the future to the harm of the king and the commons.[On dorse, None]
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A summary of this petition and the responses appears on the roll for the 1318 York Parliament.
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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 2136
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), pp.40-1 (transcript of incomplete Latin summary on Parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148612/
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