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Details of SC 8/21/1043
Reference: SC 8/21/1043
Description:
Petitioners: Richard de Byron, knight; Joan de Byron, wife of Richard de Byron.
Name(s): de Byron; de Byron, Richard; Joan
Addressees: King and lords in parliament.
Nature of request: Richard de Byron, knight, and Joan his wife ask that an illegal commission which has enabled the Mayor and bailiffs of Nottingham to destroy a gorce in the River Trent, attached to their water-mill at Colwick, be revoked, and that they be given a remedy in the present parliament.
Nature of endorsement: When this petition had been read in parliament, and the commission which it mentions, together with the process following on from this and the supplicants' evidence, carefully examined by the justices, and when they had reported back to parliament, that the commission was improperly made and against the law, and that the supplicants had shown several pieces of evidence of record concerning their right in this matter, it was decided in parliament that the commission, and all the process following it, should be completely repealed and annulled, and that the supplicants should be able to rebuild their gorce, freely and without impediment from the Mayor, bailiffs and community of Nottingham, or from any others, and that a new commission should be given to disinterested persons to enquire into the matter and to report to Chancery, if any interested person wishes to pursue this.
Places mentioned: Colwick, [Nottinghamshire]; Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned: Mayor and bailiffs of Nottingham; John de Kentwod (Kentwood).
Note: CPR 1388-92 pp.442-3 is dated at Westminster, 1 June 1391. The petition mentions parliament, so would have been presented at the next parliament, the one held at Westminster in November 1391. This tallies with a note (probably later) at the foot of the dorse, which reads 'xv R II'.
Date: [1391]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 824
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), pp.442-3 (the commission mentioned in the petition, into whether Richard Byron is obstructing the river and preventing the passage of shipping)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.298a-b (no.4) (full edition of original petition)

The King's Council in England during the Middle Ages, J.F. Baldwin, (, 1913), pp.317-8 (edition and discussion of endorsement)

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