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Petitioners

? petitioner name(s) illegible

Nature of request

[Response in nine parts to the common petitions in SC 8/272/13584:]1) Magna Carta, the Charter of the Forests and other statutes and ordinances shall be upheld.2) The commissions of trailbaston were ordered at the request of the commons; the king will order the justices to exercise their commissions appropriately;3) The king will not grant charters of pardon other than he has done, according to his coronation oath;4) The process used in eyres and in oyer and terminer should apply;5) No prises are to be taken except under the terms laid down by statute, and the justices now assigned in the counties are to have power to hear and determines plaints on this matter;6) The king will not charge his people in any other manner than has been done under his ancestors;7) It pleases the king that the tax should be collected under the terms on which it was granted, and that future taxes should be collected similarly;8) The statute in question was made at the request of the commons, and anyone who feels himself aggrieved may come into the Chancery and right will be done;9) All the petitions put forward by the commons before this time have been answered clearly before the end of the parliaments; and as to private petitions, the king wills that the auditors should try and determine them before their departure from parliament.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

People mentioned

Commons.

For the schedule of petitions to which this document forms the replies, see SC 8/272/13584

• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.270-272 (nos. 1-9) (full edition of document)
• The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), p.426 (no. iii)(translation of selected sections)