Catalogue description Petitioners: Commons of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/165/8226
Reference: SC 8/165/8226
Description:
Petitioners: Commons of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The commons of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire request remedy against Monbocher and his men, who arrest the boats on the River Trent until a ransom is paid for their return. The River Trent is the King's highway and has always been common and free to all people passing with their goods by boat.
Nature of endorsement: Certain men in Chancery should be assigned to enquire into the matters contained in this petition and into the disturbance etc. and the inquest should be returned in Chancery and viewed by the King and justice should be done.
Places mentioned: Nottinghamshire; Lincolnshire; Yorkshire.
People mentioned: Bertram Monbocher.
Note: Dated on guard to? 1324, with reference to CPR 1324-7, p. 74, a 1324 commission to survey the weirs on either side of the Trent between Nottingham and Gainsborough.
Date: [? 1324]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/130/6492
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.74 (commission to survey weirs on either side of the Trent)

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