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Commonalty of Cheshire. King. [Petition in 11 parts, with 2 further entries struck-through:]1)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/269/13423

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Reference
SC 8/269/13423
Date
[? 1280-? 1305]
Description
Petitioners
Commonalty of Cheshire.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Petition in 11 parts, with 2 further entries struck-through:]1) The commonalty request that a demand for pontage be released as they have not paid this in the time of any earl or of the king's father.2) They request remedy for the gold of the queen demanded from them.3) They request remedy for a sum demanded from them for a contempt committed in the time of King Henry, although they never committed such a contempt, to their knowledge, and will not do so.4) They request remedy as many people are taken and imprisoned in pleas of the forest on the basis of oral accusations, against their common charter and liberties.5) They state that if a neighbour brings an assize of novel disseisin against a neighbour, and several people are named in the writ, and if the plaintiff wins, the Sheriff takes an ox from everyone, even if they are not parceners, and that if they come to an agreement without the assize, he takes an ox as if the assize had found for the plaintiff.6) They state that an ox is also taken by the Sheriff if a neighbour recovers an acre, half-acre, or less of land without a writ, even though the ox may be worth more than the land.7) They ask that a maximum value might be put on the ox the Sheriff is allowed to take, as was the ancient custom.8) They ask that they might have their register of writs, and that if their lord sees that it should be amended or that more writs should be added, that this might be done.9) They request that the inquisition concerning the wastes made in Delamere Forest be delivered to the justice of Chester and he states that he has not been informed about boundaries or waste, and several people have had their animals taken from common land by the foresters.10) They state that in the time of earl Ranulf and of King Henry the people of Delamere Forest paid a certain sum each year for escapes into the waste in the forest, but that the present King has instead taken escapes. They ask that a certain sum might be fixed for each escape, as seems just and fair to the King.11) They request that the king certify to them whether they should plead their writs according to the terms 'satis' that they have used or according to the terms specified in the statutes since the king has ordered them to observe the statutes in the county for the maintenance of the county.
Nature of endorsement
[On face:]1) It is found by the Exchequer that they owe this money2) In the Exchequer for the dower owed to the queen.3) In the Exchequer.4) It is certified by the justice that the king and his father were in full seisin . . .5) The Justice states that this has been the custom, and therefore it would be to the King's disinheritance . . . 6) As above.7) As above.8) The King grants that this should be done, so that a wise inquisitor is to be sent to the Chancellor, and that the register is to be corrected by the ordinance of the Chancellor etc.9) Because it is believed that that inquisition has been lost, another inquisition is to be held by the aforesaid.10) An inquisition is to be held by the aforesaid into whether it is more advantageous that a certain sum be taken for each animal or not.11) A register is to be made by the Chancellor, and when this has been done and delivered to the Justice, the statute is to be observed after a year and a day, with regard to terms, and dates, and other matters concerning this.[On dorse, none].
Places mentioned
Cheshire
Mara (Delamere) Forest, [Cheshire].
People mentioned
Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester
Henry III, King of England.
Note
The petition is dated to? 1280-? 1305 as it is clearly a petition of the reign of Edward I.
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. II, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LVII, 1938), p.cxlvi (entry q) (partial edition of petition, items 8 and 11 only)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517370/

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