Catalogue description Petitioners: Adam Coppendale, Thomas de Beverley, John Gervais, William Dudhill, John...

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Details of SC 8/266/13262
Reference: SC 8/266/13262
Description:
Petitioners: Adam Coppendale, Thomas de Beverley, John Gervais, William Dudhill, John de Erghum and other good men of Beverley.
Name(s): Coppendale; de Beverley; Gervais; Dudhill; de Erghum, Adam; Thomas; John; William; John
Addressees: King and Council.
Nature of request: The petitioners, who have been forced out of Beverley by various rioters and rebels against the king, request that they be allowed to return, and that all obligations made by the rebels be annulled. They also request that their ancient privileges be restored, and that all indictments brought during the time when the rebels controlled the town before Bigot and his companions be brought before Tresulyan in the king's bench and be annulled.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned: John de Bigot (Bygod); Robert Tresulyan (Tresilian).
Note: This petition clearly forms one of the numerous petitions relating to the events in Beverley in 1381.
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:

The Beverley Town Riots, 1381-2, C.T. Flower, (Transactions of the Royal Historical Soc, 1905), pp.93-4 (no.V) (full edition of petition)

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