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Community of England. King and council. Petition from the community of England enclosing...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13018

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This record is about the Community of England. King and council. Petition from the community of England enclosing... dating from [1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/261/13018
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Community of England.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Petition from the community of England enclosing the transcript of a petition presented to the last parliament at Lincoln concerning trespassers in the time of the King's father, on which a remedy was promised but for which nothing has been done. They ask that now, at Pontefract, some suitable remedy may be provided.The transcript of the petition follows, in two parts. The first asks that a remedy might be provided in the matter of trespasses committed in the time of the King's father by malefactors against whom the justices are reluctant to act, because they have no lands or possessions by which they might be brought to justice, but only by their bodies: with the result that these trespassers who have nothing to lose are going unpunished. The second asks that a remedy might be provided for the assigns of those who have estate in another's land through writ of elegit, where their possession is disturbed by writ of novel disseisin.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
York
Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
[Edward II], King of England.
Note
Dated to November 1327 by SSSC, vol. V pp.cxxxii-iii (entry f). The writ issued as a result of the petition quoted here is dated 24 September 1 Edward III (1327).
Related material

For the mandate to the Treasurer issued as a result of the petition quoted here, see SC 8/261/13017

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), pp.cxxxii-iii (entry f) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516962/

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