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Details of SC 8/296/14753
Reference: SC 8/296/14753
Description:
Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named
Nature of request: List of four grievances of the petitioners in a petition formerly attached to this document [SC 8/296/14754], concerning the governance of the fair of Great Yarmouth:1) They state that by form of an agreement they, together with the Provost of Great Yarmouth, have the right to do justice during the fair at Great Yarmouth, between Michaelmas and Martinmas, but that during the last fair, on 9 October in the king's ninth year, Richard Elys, the provost, John Pyn and others forcibly disrupted their court so that pleas could not be heard there.2) They state that on the same day, John Adam, one of the petitioners, delivered a writ of non molestandum to Richard Elys and John Pyn to let them have governance of the fair, they would not publish it or obey it.3) They state that they should have the keeping of the peace and the oversight of the sale of herring during the fair, but that on 12 October John Pyn, Robert Cuppere and others made an armed assault on the petitioners, preventing them from doing this.4) They state that the people of Great Yarmouth should clear an area called the 'Strond' and 'Doune' of old boats and wood, so that the fishermen coming to the fair would have somewhere to dry their nets, Richard Elys, John Pyn and the others have refused to do this.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]; Hastings, [Sussex].
People mentioned: John Pyn, bailiff of Great Yarmouth; John Adam; Richard Elys (Ellis), provost of Great Yarmouth; Robert Cuppere.
Note: Datable to 1430-1431, as it mentions the date of 9 October 9 Henry VI [1430], which SC 8/296/14754 suggests was during the last fair at Great Yarmouth. This document must date from between Martinmas (11 November) 1430 and Michaelmas (29 September) 1431.
Date: [c. 1430]
Related material:

For the petition to which this document was attached, see SC 8/296/14754
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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