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Burgesses of Dunwich. King and council. The burgesses request that the king take...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7891

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Reference
SC 8/158/7891
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses of Dunwich.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The burgesses request that the king take the town into his hand stating that they are not able to pay their farm, and people leave the town because of the malice and false indictments and suits that the Claverings and their tenants make against people in the town.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Dunwich, [Suffolk]
Blything hundred, [Suffolk]
Wangford hundred, [Suffolk].
People mentioned
John de Claveryng (Clavering)
Edmund [de Claveryng (Clavering)], brother of John de Clavering.
Note
The petition dates to 1331 when the dispute between the people of Dunwich and the Clavering brothers seems to have to a head with both parties being ordered to appear before the king (CCR 1330-3, pp.360-1). The warrant to the bishop of Winchester to provide a remedy for the petitioners dates to 4 Mat 1331 (C 81/181/4563) The petition cannot be later than 1332 as John de Clavering was dead by January 1332 (CCR 1330-3, p.427).
Related material

For a petition that may have been attached to SC 8/11/519 see SC 8/107/5342

For a related petition see SC 8/257/12844

For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/11/519

For a warrant to the bishop of Winchester, the chancellor to view this petition and ordain a remedy of the things contained in it, see no 4563 in C 81/181

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.360-1 (order to the Clavering brothers to desist)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.44a-b (no.60) (full edition of another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210083/

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