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Commons. King. [Petition of the commons in nine parts:]1) Request for the maintenance...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/272/13584

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SC 8/272/13584
Date
[1337-1339]
Description
Petitioners
Commons.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Petition of the commons in nine parts:]1) Request for the maintenance and observation of Magna Carta, the Charter of the Forests and the other statutes and ordinances, and of the statutes and ordinances made upon purveyors of the households of the king, queen and their children;2) For the maintenance of the commissions of the peace appointed by the king at Nottingham;3) That the king should not receive into his peace notorious felons who seek his grace by undertaking to go to the wars in Scotland;4) That the sheriffs of counties into which persons indicted before the king's justices have fled should be charged to pursue those persons;5) That purveyance be according to the agreements made in parliament, and that commissions of purveyance contrary to these agreements should be repealed, since no freeman should be assessed or taxed without common assent of parliament;6) That the king, rather than the country, should provide the arms and wages of men arrayed for war;7) That the king should give relief in those cases where the tax quota charged under the tenth and fifteenth of the eighth year of the realm [1334] exceeds that of the tax of the sixth year [1332];8) That consideration be given to the hardships suffered by cities and towns as a result of the trading rights allowed to aliens under the terms of the statute of York;9) That all the petitions brought by the commons in parliament should have clear answers before the end of parliament.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
Scotland
York.
Note
Dated to the parliament of February 1339 in Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., pp. 268-270; but other commentators have dated this earlier, in particular associating it with the assembly of March 1337: see PROME, parliament of February 1339, Introduction.
Related material

For the crown's responses to these petitions of the commons, see SC 8/272/13587

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.268-270 (nos. 1-9) (full edition of petition)
  • The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), p.426 (no. iii)(translation of selected sections)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517531/

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