Community of Bristol. Chancellor. The Community of Bristol state that they have suffered...

Petitioners

Community of Bristol.

Addressees

Chancellor.

Nature of request

The Community of Bristol state that they have suffered badly at the hands of justices, sheriffs and bailiffs for lack of confirmation of their liberties, and that the King promised that their charters would be among the first to be confirmed when he visited the town at Easter in his eighth year. They ask the Chancellor to lend his counsel as to what is to be done in these matters.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] The King will answer at the next parliament.[None on dorse]

Places mentioned

Bristol.

People mentioned

Henry [III], King of England.

For a contemporary petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/89/4412

For transcript, see p.84 of PRO 31/7/92

• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.15 (edition of a record of the Acton Burnel parliament of 1283 which mentions a petition which may be this one) & p.18 (no.32c) (full edition of petition)
• Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), p.cxlv (entry c) (full edition of 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), C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 32(ii) (full edition and translation)