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Gentlemen of Berkshire. King. The gentlemen of Berkshire request that they may have...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/218/10889

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Reference
SC 8/218/10889
Date
[? c. 1315]
Description
Petitioners
Gentlemen of Berkshire.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The gentlemen of Berkshire request that they may have the eyre at Reading, where it is accustomed to be, and their prison at Wallingford, rather than at Windsor, which is at the extremity of the county.
Nature of endorsement
The king will summon the justices, and have advice upon this petition, and will do what seems best for himself and the petitioners.
Places mentioned
Berkshire
Reading, [Berkshire]
Wallingford, [Berkshire]
Windsor, [Berkshire].
Note
Other petitions on this matter were presented to the parliaments of 1315 and 1318 (SC 8/257/12843), and a commission of enquiry was issued on 12 June 1315. It seems likely that the present petition was also presented around this time, or perhaps slightly earlier.
Related material

For another petition on this matter see SC 8/257/12843

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.328-9 (commission of enquiry into this matter)
  • Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.40 (enrolment of response to related petition on parliament roll)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.300a (full edition of related petition and response)
  • 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), Parliament of 1315, no.57 (edition and translation of related petition and response) & Parliament of 1318, no.218 (edition and translation of enrolment of response to related petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334447/

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