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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Commons of Suffolk and other commons of the land. King and council. The petitioners...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/142/7060
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This record is about the Commons of Suffolk and other commons of the land. King and council. The petitioners... dating from [1379] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/142/7060
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commons of Suffolk and other commons of the land.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that it was previously ordained by statute that it would be permissable for anyone to buy and sell freely in any city, borough, port or elsewhere in the realm, and that all charters and letters patent to the contrary were to be void, and that this statute was confirmed by the last parliament held at Gloucester; but the King has now renewed a charter of Edward III to the people of Yarmouth, that no-one should be allowed to buy or sell within seven leagues of the town, and that a place called Kirkley Roads, in Suffolk, which is six leagues from Yarmouth, in Norfolk, should be annexed to it: although this charter was repealed in the time of Edward III as being injurious to the commons of the realm. The people of Yarmouth now have an armed barge and are forcibly preventing the sale of goods in Kirkley Roads. They ask the King and council to consider an agreement made by Edward III for his tenants of Lowestoft and all the people of Suffolk with the people of Yarmouth and the Cinque Ports, that in time of fair everyone could buy or sell with any ship wishing to anchor in Kirkley Roads, and to summon before the King and council twelve or twenty-four of the best fish-merchants of London, who have knowledge of all types of merchandise, to state on oath whether this agreement is to the profit of the realm or not; so that the charter can be annulled and the people buy and sell freely as before.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Suffolk
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Kirkley, Suffolk
- Lowestoft, [Suffolk]
- the Cinque Ports
- London.
- People mentioned
- [Edward III], King of England.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.330a-b (repeal of charter of Great Yarmouth, in 1376)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209239/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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