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Mayor and commonalty of London. King and council. The mayor and commonalty request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5973

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This record is about the Mayor and commonalty of London. King and council. The mayor and commonalty request... dating from [1318-1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/120/5973
Date
[1318-1327]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and commonalty of London.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The mayor and commonalty request that the matter raised by them by petition at the parliament at York concerning the breach of their liberties whereby certain of the king's ministers summon them to answer for many pleas outside of the walls of the city be expedited before the king and his council as the courts have not assembled for many reasons and their business has still not been heard.[The petition contains the full text of a writ ordering the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to summon justices and other members of the council before them to consider the matter and to supersede any orders for the levying of amercements].1)
Nature of endorsement
They should have a writ sicut alias mutatis mutandis.2) Coram magno consilio.
Places mentioned
London
York.
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
John de Cherleton (Charlton)
Roger le Palmere (Palmer).
Note
Dates to some point between the writ of 1318 quoted here and the end of Edward II's reign.
Related material

For another copy of the earlier petition mentioned here, see SC 8/324/E642

For transcript, see no.55 of PRO 31/7/100

For the earlier petition mentioned here, see SC 8/59/2927

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4903
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), p.31 (Latin summary of earlier petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150666/

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