Chancellor, masters and clerks of the University of Cambridge. King and council....

Petitioners

Chancellor, masters and clerks of the University of Cambridge.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The chancellor, masters and clerks of the university request remedy and the liberty which the King granted to his university of Oxford, because the scholars often make contracts, covenants and exchanges among themselves and between themselves and laymen concerning books, horses, cloth and other goods, on which they plead or are impleaded before the chancellor according to the usages and privileges of the university, but sometimes the party impleaded brings the King's prohibition so that the plaintiff cannot sue his claim or have judgment.

Nature of endorsement

As the university of Oxford has, so are they to have.

Places mentioned

[Cambridge, Cambridgeshire]

Oxford, [Oxfordshire].

For a related petition see SC 8/257/12819

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.36 (no.53) (edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.161b (no.16) (Latin summary of petition on Parliament Roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no.33 (full edition and translation of petition)