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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    The next item dealt with a grievance about false measures and weights. (Fragment only, a large piece gone. Endorsement partly gone!) This petition was probably sent with the next. 55. Anc. Pet., File 86, No. 4298. Abstract. Begins ‘Item monstrent ses auantditz clers’ that ‘marchancie’ provides that measures must agree with the kings ^ measures and be marked with the town mark, but the wine and ale or 1320. measures of Oxford are out of assise and are not marked except by the marks of the four aldermen, each in his ward, whereby they favour their neighbours; and they pray the king to grant that the Chancellor may at the proper hour affix his mark on the measures jointly either with the aldermen or with those who ought to mark them: ‘ for the commune of the clerks is greater than the commune of the town.’ They pray also that the measures may be of the same form as those of London, and that weights may be sealed. Endorsement. Respondu est par la commune ordenaunce. Re- spondu est par comen acord et assent en parlement. Coram Rege et magno consilio. Lymberghe. Adam de Lymbergh, clerk, who signed, perhaps wrote, the endorse- ment, was one of the Receivers of Petitions to the Parliaments of 1315 and 1320. His name is attached also to another of these Oxford petitions (No. 53). By Pat. T Edw. Ill (pt. i, m. 27), the assise of weights and measures was granted to the Chancellor and Mayor together, during pleasure; the following year (Pat. 2 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 15) this was continued, and if the Mayor were not present after due warning to supervise them the Chancellor should do it alone. Another patent was issued 20 Edw. Ill (pt. i, m. 30, dorso) to the same effect. 56. Rot. Pari. I. 373. The University pray that stranger merchants coming to the town may be allowed to sell their goods free from obstruction by the burgesses, U7id that they may have fixed places where they may sell. § I. Ad petitionem Cancellarii, magistrorum et scolarium Univer- i4Edw. TI, sitatis O.xon, petentium remcdium, quod cum dominus Rex per