Catalogue description Petitioners: ? Burgesses of Beverley. Addressees: Council. Nature of...

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Details of SC 8/94/4688
Reference: SC 8/94/4688
Description:
Petitioners: ? Burgesses of Beverley.
Addressees: Council.
Nature of request: [Petition in 6 parts].1) It is requested that all manner of obligations, submissions and condemnations made forcibly in the time of the last uprising at Beverley, and that restitution is made of all sums taken because of it.2) No lands, tenements, rents or services be charged for such obligations.3) All manner of offices made in this time be deposed.4) All neifs of burgesses are able to return safely without any manner of prosecution of rebels.5) That a commission granted to the rebels to acquit them of their evils and to prosecute those who were not culpable be repealed, and that any further commission should be made by foreign people.6) Many burgesses who have pursued writs and protections of the king, have sworn oaths not to pursue writs, protection or complaint made of them that are to the disadvantage of the king, and of those that have pursued and have made fine for the said pursuit those persons with other . . . of the town . . .
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
Note: The petition dates to the revolt of 1381 and is one of a number of petitions relating to Beverley.
Date: [1381]
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For transcript, see no.13 of PRO 31/7/107
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 829
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.84-5 (discussion of this petition and others)

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