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Details of SC 8/268/13364
Reference: SC 8/268/13364
Description:
Petitioners: Weavers and workers in worsted in Norfolk.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The weavers and workers request that they can use their craft without making fine as Robert de Polee obtained the alnage of their cloths by a commission commanding that their cloths be made to an unaccustomed length, and taking 1d. or more for each cloth depending on its length. Many weavers are being driven from their craft, as the merchants do not wish to buy their cloth, as Robert de Poley seizes improperly made cloth from them, until they have made fine with him.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Norfolk.
People mentioned: Robert de Poleye (Poley).
Note: The petition is dated to c. 1328 as the petition is nearly identical to another petition, a transcript of which was amongst those transcribed by Hale and ascribed a date of 1328 [2 Edw. III] (Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.28a-b (no.50)).
Date: [c. 1328]
Related material:

For a related document, see SC 8/313/E106

For a related document, see SC 8/313/E105

For another document with which this petition was probably enclosed, see SC 8/268/13369

For a near identical copy of this petition with a response, and with which this petition was probably enclosed, see SC 8/266/13292

For a closely related petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/17/811

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, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.395 (order to those assigned to hold an inquisition into the question of the action of the ulnager to supersede the order until further notice)

Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.934 (inquisition into the assise of worsted in Norwich)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), pp.297-8 (commission to hold an inquisition into the question of the action of the ulnager)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.28a-b (no.50) (edition of later copy of original related petition)

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.13-30, no.50 (summary of references)

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