Human Rights

Choose a time period

• 1215 - 1500
• 1500 - 1760
• 1760 - 1815
• 1815 - 1848
• 1848 - 1914
• 1914 - 1945

1215 - 1500

• Background
• Timeline
• Related documents

Petition by Richard Oysel

Date: c.1302. Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E176

Oysel requests certain punishment upon those servants encouraged by the abetment of two ploughmen and two carters to demand greater wages and conditions against whom justice cannot be done.

Endorsement: [On face:]The bailiff should make them come before the treasurer and barons and justices of the Bench, and there let what they consider ought to be done be done.[On dorse, none].

• Image

See all documents for this time period