Catalogue description Petitioners: Alderman and twenty-three people of Bury St Edmunds. Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/20/968
Reference: SC 8/20/968
Description:
Petitioners: Alderman and twenty-three people of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees: King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request: The Alderman and twenty-three people of Bury St Edmunds state that they have come to appear before the council, to answer concerning the late rebellion in their town, of which they were never guilty, as was proved before the Earl of Suffolk and other justices given a commission to inquire into this; because of which rebellion, the whole town has been exempted from the king's grace, on the allegations of certain people made at the last parliament. They request that the king clarify this exemption by stating that he and parliament wish to exempt only the malefactors, so that the innocent are not ruined for others' misdeeds, as the malefactors have been indicted by the people of the town before the said earl.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Bury (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk].
People mentioned: [William Ufford], Earl of Suffolk.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.175a assigns this petition to 7 Richard II (22 June 1383- 21 June 1384). There were two parliaments during this year, in October and April. It would seem to be a reaction to a response to the petition of the Prior and convent of Bury St Edmunds (SC 8/20/967). If that was presented to the parliament of February-March 1383, this one may have been presented in October. The duplicate petition, SC 8/20/971, has an endorsement which seems to assign it to a specific parliament, but unfortunately neglects to state which.
Date: [? 1384]
Related material:

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/972

A duplicate petition is SC 8/20/971

For a related petition from the Prior and convent of Bury St Edmunds is SC 8/20/967

For transcript, see no.42 of PRO 31/7/109

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/983
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 820
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.86 (commission of the peace and to arrest and inquire into disturbances in Suffolk, issued to William Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, and others, December 1381)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.175a, no. 2 (full edition of original petition) & pp.170b-172a (transcription of related petition and associated business on parliament roll)

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