Catalogue description Disputes between Mayor and burgesses and Abbot of St. Peter and his Maisemore tenants...

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Details of GBR/B/8/7
Reference: GBR/B/8/7
Description:

Disputes between Mayor and burgesses and Abbot of St. Peter and his Maisemore tenants over common rights, subject of litigation from c.1507

 

Includes draft answers of Mayor and burgesses to bill of complaint by Abbot and his tenants over alleged riot and seizure of cattle and horses (1513). Contains evidence of long-standing dispute and previous effort at settlement; description of procession of workmen at harvest time etc., led by town's 'tabourer', to High Cross to drink

 

[Stevenson 1371/1425; see also GBR/B/2/1 ff. 118-9, 202-3]

 

Agreement, 1518, settling the dispute (detailed)

 

[Stevenson 1197/1186; see also GBR/B/2/1 f. 206-7, GBR/B/2/2 f. 11]

 

Bond from Maisemore tenants to obey further award, 1519

 

[Stevenson 1199/1188; see also GBR/B/2/2 f. 4]
Date: (c.1507)-1519
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 3

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