Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT; AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/56 2751-2800. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item level.
Record Summary
Scope and content
Petitioners: The Burgesses of Lancaster.
Addressees: King and council.
Places mentioned: Lancaster, [Lancashire]; Forest of Quernmore, [Lancashire]; York
Other people mentioned: Thomas [of Lancaster], late Earl of Lancaster; John Travers; John de Lancaster.
Nature of request: The petitioners seek the recovery of their right to pasture animals and collect estovers of deadwood to burn and growing wood from the forest of Quernmore to build in Lancaster (by a charter from King John), because since the burning of their town by the king's Scottish enemies they require wood to rebuild. They held these rights peaceably from the time of the aforesaid charter until the taking into the king's hands of the forest through the forfeiture of Thomas of Lancaster when Travers, then the king's steward in the county, hindered them. The petitioners went to York to show their grievances and a writ was sent out of chancery to the steward that they should have their rights in the forest according to the tenor of the charter and by reason thereof the steward allowed their rights, until John de Lancaster became steward and they were hindered for his term, which hindrance continues against the charter and to their disinheritance.
Endorsement: Let them have a writ in chancery similar to the other sent to John de Lancaster now warden.The burgesses of the town [of Lancaster].
Covering dates
[1323]
Availability
Open Document, Open Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
