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Mayor and commonalty of the town of Bristol. King and council. [The petition is largely...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/160/7990

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Reference
SC 8/160/7990
Date
[1325]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and commonalty of the town of Bristol.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The petition is largely illegible and the details are drawn from the Rot. Parl. transcript].The mayor and commonalty request that Temple Street be part and answer with the rest of the people of Bristol as it currently lies in Somerset, and when the sheriff of Gloucestershire is ordered by the king to make execution, the people of the town move their goods to this street so that neither the sheriff or his bailiffs are able to make execution on them.
Nature of endorsement
Stonor, Clyvedon and Amesham should be assigned, or one or two of them so that Stonore be one, to enquire in the presence of the sheriff of Somerset and Gloucester and the men of the wich of Temple Street to what damage of the king it be if the king grants this petition.
Places mentioned
Bristol
Somerset
Gloucestershire
People mentioned
John de Stonore (Stonor)
John de Clyvedon
John de Amesham.
Note
The petition is dated to 1325 as the petition is one of those petitions belonging to the November parliament of 1325 (Rot. Parl., vol. I, p.434a (no.12)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.434a (no.12) (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp.431-47, no.12 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210182/

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