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Barons of Pevensey. King. The Barons of Pevensey make two requests:1) They state...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/197/9803

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Reference
SC 8/197/9803
Date
[? c. 1297]
Description
Petitioners
Barons of Pevensey.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Barons of Pevensey make two requests:1) They state that their town is being ruined because no-one can enter or leave it from the east, and ask that they might have permission to build a bridge at their own expense for the salvation of the town.2) They state that the inquisition taken by the Keeper of the Cinque Ports into tallages wrongly levied by the King's Bailiffs of Pevensey has been returned in Chancery, and they ask the King to have it brought before him and to do justice.
Nature of endorsement
[On face, to first] There is to be an inquisition by the Constable of Pevensey and the Bailiff of the Eagle.[On face, to second] They are to wait for the Michaelmas term, and then both inquisitions are to come before the King.[None on dorse]
Places mentioned
Pevensey, [Sussex]
Cinque Ports.
Note
Tentatively dated to c. 1297 with reference to CIM 1219-1307no.1763, the writ for which is dated 4 July 25 Edward I (1297) and which seems likely to be the inquisition mentioned in the second petition, and to CPR 1292-1301 p.348, which is dated 21 April 1298.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1763 (inquisition finding that the people of the lowey of Pevensey are of the liberty of the Cinque Ports, and should be quit of tallages)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.348 (grant of various liberties, including freedom from tallages and aids payable from their own ships and the gear of their ships, to the Cinque Ports)
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