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People of St Briavels and Newland. King. The people request remedy as although they...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4481

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SC 8/90/4481
Date
[? 1341]
Description
Petitioners
People of St Briavels and Newland.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people request remedy as although they have always been free, there came the bailiff of Monmouth and made them pay toll, pavage and murage wrongfully. And also if a man of the king's people . . . came, another who is not a debtor or a pledge is distrained. And if any miner . . . that they may have their mines as they had them in the time of the king's father, so that they may not be . . . nor the assart.1)
Nature of endorsement
Concerning the first point, he who feels himself aggrieved by the bailiff, let him take his writ according to his case, and justice shall be done to him.2) Concerning the other point of those wrongfully distrained, let him make the delivery by writ or in another manner, and justice shall be done to him. And concerning the third, let a writ be ordered for the miners, so that they may not be unreasonably aggrieved.
Places mentioned
St Briavels, [Gloucestershire]
Newland, [Gloucestershire]
Monmouth, [Monmouthshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Bailiff of Monmouth.
Note
Rees dates the petition to? 1341 on the basis that he linked it to complaints by the constable of St Briavels Castle and farmer of the Forest to the high level of the farm. Although the dating is plausible, it is by no means certain (Petitions Relating to Wales, p.136).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 356
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.136 (full calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149026/

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