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Not specified. Commons in Parliament. A request that whereas some people who have...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/277/13830

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Reference
SC 8/277/13830
Date
[1433]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified.
Addressees
Commons in Parliament.
Nature of request
A request that whereas some people who have dwelled in the Stews in Southwark have suddenly become rich and purchased lands of great yearly value, by which they have been returned by the sheriff of the county and sworn in inquests of felonies and trespasses and in assizes and other pleas of land before the King's judges in his courts and before the steward and marshal of the King's household, by which many lawful men have been disinherited and wrongfully condemned and many murderers and thieves have gone unpunished, and the said suspect people frequent common hostelries and taverns in the high street of Southwark where they receive the same common women and other evildoers as they did at the Stews, that it be ordained that if any such person be returned by any minister of the King in Surrey or before the steward and marshal of the King's household, that he may be challenged, and that no one who has dwelled in the Stews be allowed to hold any common hostelry or tavern anywhere in Southwark except at the Stews, and that the justices of the peace in Surrey should have power to enquire into all such holders of hostelries and taverns and to punish them by fine, ransom and imprisonment.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] It should be sent to the lords.
Places mentioned
Southwark, Surrey.
Note
Dated to 1433 in Anthology of Chancery English, pp. 232-3.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • An Anthology of Chancery English, Ed. J.H. Fisher, M. Richardson and J.L. Fisher, (University of Tennessee, 1984), pp.232-3 (edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.447a (no.1) (edition of petition on Parliament Roll)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517777/

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