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John Bret (Brett). Bret (Brett) John King and Parliament. The petitioner asks that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5138

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Reference
SC 8/103/5138
Date
[c. 1382]
Description
Petitioners
John Bret (Brett).
Name(s)
Bret (Brett), John
Addressees
King and Parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioner asks that no further charges or bonds should be made on the king's liegemen. He states that a writ was directed to the mayor and bailiffs of York such that no imposition or tax other than the subsidy granted to the king was to be levied in the city, as appears in the attached copy. Whixley then encroached on the royal power to levy after the said writ two taxes, and a third now being levied, against the ban and in contempt of the king and the laws of the land, to the oppression and ruin of the city with only the agreement of leaders ... who use the dreaded hoods and number forty and more, in likeness to those in boroughs and various places who obstruct the king's orders. For loss of the said taxes the petitioner brings true information ... the expenses ... the destruction ... of the loyal people. And beyond this the said Simon has demanded sums from the said city for making assessments in ... of their errors that from some should be taken £20, and from others £10, and from others 100s and from [others] ... in this dreadful manner to collect the sum of ... and more, and after the uprising has ordered ... the common seal to levy prests of 1000 marks, to which many other of the king's liege citizens have not assented.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
York.
People mentioned
Simon de Whixley (Quixley), Mayor of York.
Note
Datable to the immediate aftermath of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 when proceedings were taken against Simon Quixley by the crown.
Related material

For transcript, see no.1 of PRO 31/7/108

For the writ originally attached to this petition see SC 8/103/5139

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2153
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149708/

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