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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Good people of Beverley. King. The good people request remedy and that the malefactors...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/225/11237
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/225/11237
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1382]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Good people of Beverley.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The good people request remedy and that the malefactors who have come to London and who threaten the good people's lives be charged to answer why they have come thus, and that Courcy and others be charged to say the truth of the rebellions made by the malefactors and that the good people are able to return and reside without impeachment. It was proclaimed that all burgesses and other commoners be at the great hall of Beverley before Bigot and Middleton under pain of forfeiture and imprisonment, and when they came they sealed a blank ragman and were charged to go to London to maintain the evils against the good people. Many went against their will and many horses were stolen from the common pasture.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- London.
- People mentioned
- John Bigot
- John de Middelton (Middleton), clerk
- Isabel [de Courcy], aunt of the king
- Robert Rous
- Richard Hembreg
- Nicholas Prake
- James Lyons
- John Noselay.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1382 as it appears to be of the period towards the end of the troubles in Beverley.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related document, see SC 8/94/4688
For a long series of related documents from SC 8/225/11201-11242, and 11247, see
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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)
- The Beverley Town Riots, 1381-2, C.T. Flower, (Transactions of the Royal Historical Soc, 1905), pp.96-7 (No.IX) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334797/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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