Catalogue description Petitioners: People of the town of Beverley. Addressees: Council. Nature of...

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Details of SC 8/94/4700
Reference: SC 8/94/4700
Description:
Petitioners: People of the town of Beverley.
Addressees: Council.
Nature of request: [The petition is badly stained and difficult to follow].The petitioners request remedy as the rebels have caused raised the commons against the wealthy of the town and assaulted the houses of the great of the town, and taken ransoms. In addition they have taken the common seal and sealed obligations in great sums, and imprisoned Buddely who had sued a bill against them though he was under the king's protection.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned: Richard de Boston; Richard de Middelton (Middleton); Richard de Caldewell; Henry de Newark; Thomas Whiter, telar; John Williamson, butcher; William de Bury, skinner; John de Lekenfeld (Leconfield), barker; Geoffrey Bredon; William Dudhill; John Gervays; Adam Croppendale; Paul de Buddely.
Note: The petition is dated to 1381, as the petition clearly refers to the action of rebels.
Date: [1381]
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For transcript, see no.22 of PRO 31/7/108
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 846
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.94-5 (full edition of petition)

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