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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull. King and council. The burgesses and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13140
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This record is about the Burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull. King and council. The burgesses and... dating from [? 1307-? 1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/263/13140
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1307-? 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull request that:1) whereas soon after its foundation the town was almost destroyed because of arrests made there on alien merchants, which arrests were then forbidden by letters patent of the King's father, that henceforward no alien merchant be arrested in the town or in the Humber on his arrival, stay or departure from the said town for a debt for which he is not a pledge or the principal debtor or for a trespass which he did not commit;2) whereas it is contained in their charters that they should have all the franchises and free customs belonging to a free borough, by virtue of which the bailiffs of the town have held pleas of assize of fresh force and of debt where the sum exceeds 40s without writ and other pleas, that the general words in their charters be declared by particular words concerning the named pleas, and that after recovery by assize of fresh force they can have cognisance of any re-disseisin by writ of Chancery; 3) whereas it is contained in their charter that they cannot implead or be impleaded elsewhere, which franchise has sometimes been contravened, that this point be clarified in the following words: 'Likewise that women covered by their husbands may have cognisance and pronounce their right to tenements in the borough before the mayor, bailiffs and at least 12 burgesses in full court.' 1)
- Nature of endorsement
- On the first point the King has granted that all such arrests should be suspended, and when arrests are ordered they should be made so that no damage be done to the town.2) On the second point it seems to the council that because the mayor, bailiffs and keeper can hold such pleas of assizes, that this should be granted, and also the third point.
- Places mentioned
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- River Humber, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Internal evidence suggests that the petition may date from the reign of Edward II.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517086/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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