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Commons of Marshland in Norfolk. King in Parliament. The commons of Marshland request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/125/6216

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This record is about the Commons of Marshland in Norfolk. King in Parliament. The commons of Marshland request... dating from [c. 1379] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/125/6216
Date
[c. 1379]
Description
Petitioners
Commons of Marshland in Norfolk.
Addressees
King in Parliament.
Nature of request
The commons of Marshland request a commission of oyer et terminer to the Earl of Suffolk and others, to enquire into various misdemeanours in the region. They state that an earlier commission had been granted to Cavendish, Meers and Holt into their request for the narrowing of the river at Wiggenhall, but that they refused to look into other matters under that commission.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
[Freebridge] Marshland, Norfolk
Wiggenhall, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
John Cavendish
Roger Meers (Meres)
John Holt
[William de Ufford], Earl of Suffolk
[Robert Willoughby], Lord Willoughby
William de Wichyngham
John Hawe
Robert de Swillyngton (Swillyngton)
John de Rocheford
Ralph de Rochford
Esmon Gourney
John de Holkam.
Note
Dated on the guard to?1378-9, with reference to SC 8/146/7272 and SC 8/149/7447. A commission de wallis et fossatis was issued on 28 May 1379 (in response to SC 8/149/7447), naming as commissioners most of the people whom the petitioners ask to be named on their commission. It therefore seems likely that this petition also dates to roughly the same period.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/146/7272

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5462
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.363 (commission de wallis et fossatis for this region in response to related petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208389/

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