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Details of SC 8/168/8356
Reference: SC 8/168/8356
Description:
Petitioners: Greater burgesses of Beverley.
Addressees: King and Council.
Nature of request: The petitioners state that rioters and trouble-makers have taken control of the town government of Beverley, removed the common seal from the keepers and instituted new officials, contrary to the king's lordship. They state that these people forced them to enter certain bonds against their will, and since they dare not approach the town for fear of death, they fear they will have payment from them by default under mercantile law. They therefore request that the king order the town ministers not to execute any such bonds made since Pentecost last until the matter can be discussed by the council.
Nature of endorsement: Adam de Coppendale, John de Ake, draper, John Gerveys, William de Dodall and Paul de Butby of Beverley send this bill to the council for themselves and others of the said town.It is agreed by the council that they shall have a [writ of] supersedeas until [the next] parliament.
Places mentioned: Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned: Adam de Coppendale; John de Ake, draper; John Gerveys (Gervays); William de Dodall (Dudhill); Paul de Butby.
Note: The petition clearly relates to the upheavals in the civic government of Beverley in 1381 (Victoria County History: East Riding of Yorkshire, vol. VI, pp.22-3). A writ of supersedeas relating to these bonds was issued on 26 September 1381, seemingly in response to this petition.
Date: [1381]
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Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.38 (calendar of related summons) & p.87 (requested writ of supersedeas)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.393 (edition of related summons)

The Beverley Town Riots, 1381-2, C.T. Flower, (Transactions of the Royal Historical Soc, 1905), p.93 (edition of petition)

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