Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a poy tint aunz a moult grant summe dauer. de quoy ne vnt geres en les murs . . . -mager de clers et de lays iloeqes demoraunz. Ou sur coe assigner auditours de . . . [^The end of the drip torn off. On the torn end ivas the endorsement; of the few words that remain only ‘ petitio ’ is legible.^ 3. Anc. Pet., File 133, No. 6614. Abstract. To the King : the Burgesses and commonalty of Oxford show, that by charter they have cognisance of all manner of pleas, and hold pleas by writ before the Mayor and bailiffs, but if it happen that the Mayor or any of the bailiffs are absent (and they cannot do their merchant’s business while a plea is before them) the pleas are stayed, to the great mischief of the suit;—they pray that if either of the bailiffs or the Mayor be ill or absent an alderman may be appointed lieutenant for the holding of pleas. Also pray that they may take felons outside their franchise for felonies done in the town and commit them to their prison of Bocardo. Fragtnentary, the right edge torn. 4. Anc. Pet., File 132, No. 6561. To the King and Council: ‘qe le’ Chancellor of the University; the petitioners seem to be the burgesses—‘ son poeple ’ of Oxford ; the subject is the assize of bread and ale, weights and measures, but so much of the document is gone that we cannot tell more exactly the contents of this short petition. Much mutilated. 5. Anc. Pet., File 97, No. 4813. folin Brown, scholar of Oxford, during absence at Rome has been falsely appealed by a Jewess for a Christian child, and purstied from county to county and outlaived; wherefore on his return, being imprisoned, he prays the king's mercy, as he cannot go to the commo7i law zvithout it. Sire ce wus mustre Joan brun escoler de Oxonford, ke cum il fu ale ? Early a la Curt de Rome pur se bosungnis e vne Amic (?), Jue de Oxonford,