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? Burgesses of Beverley. Council. [Petition in 6 parts].1) It is requested that all...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4688

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This record is about the ? Burgesses of Beverley. Council. [Petition in 6 parts].1) It is requested that all... dating from [1381] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/94/4688
Date
[1381]
Description
Petitioners
? Burgesses of Beverley.
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
[Petition in 6 parts].1) It is requested that all manner of obligations, submissions and condemnations made forcibly in the time of the last uprising at Beverley, and that restitution is made of all sums taken because of it.2) No lands, tenements, rents or services be charged for such obligations.3) All manner of offices made in this time be deposed.4) All neifs of burgesses are able to return safely without any manner of prosecution of rebels.5) That a commission granted to the rebels to acquit them of their evils and to prosecute those who were not culpable be repealed, and that any further commission should be made by foreign people.6) Many burgesses who have pursued writs and protections of the king, have sworn oaths not to pursue writs, protection or complaint made of them that are to the disadvantage of the king, and of those that have pursued and have made fine for the said pursuit those persons with other . . . of the town . . .
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
Note
The petition dates to the revolt of 1381 and is one of a number of petitions relating to Beverley.
Related material

For a related document, see SC 8/94/4700

For transcript, see no.13 of PRO 31/7/107

For a long series of related documents from SC 8/225/11201-11242, and 11247, see

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 829
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
The Beverley Town Riots, 1381-2, C.T. Flower, (Transactions of the Royal Historical Soc, 1905), pp.84-5 (discussion of this petition and others)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149239/

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