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Commonalty of Boston. King and council. [Petition in 5 parts:]1) The commonalty complain...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/312/E43
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This record is about the Commonalty of Boston. King and council. [Petition in 5 parts:]1) The commonalty complain... dating from [c. 1299] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/312/E43
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1299]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of Boston.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in 5 parts:]1) The commonalty complain of Sutton for arresting a ship of Boston and detaining it until the master paid him 20s.2) The commonalty complain of Sutton's arrest of Bony and allowing him to take bad money out of the town by his licence.3) They complain of Sutton who purchased an assize of novel disseisin against Fitz Thomas for the commonalty but caused them to be amerced for their none-suit.4) They complain that Sutton is a maintainer of false quarrels, a sustainer of pleas and an abettor a bad litigation and for his misuse of courts.5) They complain of le Clerk and Gesters who were assigned to Boston to take all bad money coming from overseas, but they refused to act against Fitz Alexander and others who notoriously brought such money into the haven.
- Nature of endorsement
- At the Exchequer.
- Places mentioned
- Boston, [Lincolnshire]
- Skirbeck wapentake, Holland, [Lincolnshire]
- York
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Sutton, king's bailiff of the wapentake of Skirbeck
- Henry Bony of York, merchant
- John de Tumby
- John Fitz Thomas of Boston
- Adam de Crokdaik, justice of Assize
- William Inge, justice of assize
- Nicholas de Bolingbroke
- Nicholas [le Clerk], son of Alexander le Clerk of Boston
- Thomas Gesters of Boston
- William Fitz Alexander of Boston
- Henry Crappes of Skirbeck
- Alan Bacoun (Bacon) of Boston
- William [de Tumby], son of John de Tumby.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1299 as the third request refers to the feast of St Margaret in 27 [Edw. I].
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529094/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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