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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of the town of Great Yarmouth. King and council. [Petition in two parts:]1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/334/E1144
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This record is about the Burgesses of the town of Great Yarmouth. King and council. [Petition in two parts:]1)... dating from [c. 1307-c. 1320] 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 8/334/E1144
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of the town of Great Yarmouth.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in two parts:]1) The burgesses request that the king will command his justices will go to judgment concerning a plea that they have brought for the estate of the king and themselves against William Man and others of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston of various forestalments made by them, the which is pleaded to judgment and has pended in judgment for seven years to the great cost and damage of the petitioners, and pending which judgment, the people of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston continue their forestalment and make rescues from the bailiffs and burgesses of Great Yarmouth, and make assaults and other trespasses from day to day knowing no punishment of law can be made against them.2) The burgesses request that the king will order his writ to the justices that they proceed to hear and determine the trespasses committed by various people of Great and Little Yarmouth and Gorleston against the bailiffs, and that the fines made by them levied. The bailiffs bought writs of oyer and terminer but these were superseded by a writ of Bretagne claiming that a case pended on similar trespasses.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because they have a day before the bishop of Norwich and the treasurer concerning the dissension between them, they should await until etc.
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Little Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Gorleston-on-Sea, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- Roger Brabazon, justice
- William Man
- John Perbron, bailiff of Great Yarmouth
- Robert de Fordele, bailiff of Great Yarmouth
- William de Ormesby
- John de Britaigne (Bretagne).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1307-c. 1320 on the basis of the hand. As most of the petitions that precede this one in this file are dated to around 1312-1315, it seems likely that this petitions is similarly dated.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related list of prises taken at Little Yarmouth and Gorleston which seems to have been enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/334/E1143
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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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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683270/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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