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Commonalty of Holland. King and council. [Petition in four parts:]1) The commons...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/328/E877
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/328/E877
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Date (When the record was created)
- [after. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of Holland.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in four parts:]1) The commons request remedy as the sheriff proclaimed in Lincoln at Christmas that pollards and crockards were worth only a half penny, and Spalding was to make the same proclamation at the same time in all the market towns of his bailiwick, but he delayed the proclamation for eight days at the request of Fitz Alexander and others so that they could dispose of their pollards and crockards paying a halfpenny for a penny to the great damage and loss of the country.2) [The entry is damaged. Part of each line is lost by a whole in the centre of the parchment]. They request the king's grace for payment for corn taken by Spalding from the merchants in Holland [? at the command] of the sheriff which has still not been paid, the sheriff having been removed from office.3) They complain that the same William brought an acknowledged thief to the fair of Crowland and took five men and one woman [named] without warrant of the king or sheriff, but on his own authority, and imprisoned them, and also took several goods.4) They request remedy as Spalding troubles ... of his bailiwick at York in inquisitions outside of the county where they have land and rent of 40s. per annum.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Concerning to the two first petitions, they should go to the Exchequer, and there let them be heard and the bailiffs called so that justice can be done.2) Concerning the others, the plaintiffs should acquire justice for themselves by writ of trespass and imprisonment if they wish.3) They petitioned elsewhere and did not prosecute.
- Places mentioned
- Holland, [Lincolnshire]
- Skirbeck, [Lincolnshire]
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
- Crowland, [Lincolnshire]
- Abingdon, [Berkshire]
- Whaplode, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- William de Spaldyngg (Spalding), chief bailiff of the king in Holland
- William Fiz Alysaundre (Fitz Alexander) of Boston
- Alan Bacon of Boston
- Henry Crappes of Skirbeck
- Richard de Draycot, late sheriff of Lincoln
- John de Schafeld
- Piers de Swaffam (Swaffham)
- John le Tayllour (Tailor) of Abingdon
- William de Berton
- John [de Holme], son of Nicholas de Holme
- Nicholas de Holme
- William le Berman of Whaplode
- Idonia de Donestaple (Dunstable).
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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/C9682872/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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