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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    town of Oxford over the sale of ale, as to whether it ought to be sold in the town as in a city or as in a borough; that the king in his charter to the burgesses declared the article, and by the sheriffs writ the bailiffs of Oxford were ordered to publish and proclaim that the sale of ale thenceforward should be made in the town as in a borough ; but the bailiffs have done nothing. The said clerks pray remedy of this grievance. 59. Rot. Pari. I. 373- § 4. Ad petitionem eorundem querentium quod cum ordinatum sit i4Edw. TI, per Cancellarium quod nullus clericus in eadem universitate deferat ^320- anna in eadem villa, etc., petunt quod illud idem observetur de laicis in eadem villa, etc. Ita responsum est: Habeant breve Maiori quod inhibeat ex parte Regis ne aliquis laicus preter ministros ville deferat arma in eadem villa. {French original of \ \ in ^Ancient Petiiions,' File 3, No. 133, here abstracted.') Begins ‘ Item monstrent ses ditz clers.’ The said clerks show— whereas there are two communities in Oxford, one of the clerks, the other of the lay, the Chancellor has forbidden the clerks on pain of imprisonment or excommunication to bear arms in the town, but the laymen do so, killing and wounding unarmed scholars, and for the wrongs committed by them are too often acquitted by their neigh- bours ;—pray that men taken for such offences—foreigners or denizens—may be tried before Justices, and that all, clerks and lay, be forbidden to wear arms, and that in default of the Mayor the Chan- cellor may punish where need may be. Endorsement. Let them have a writ to the Mayor that he forbid any layman except town officials to wear arms in the town. 60. Rot. Pari. I. 373. Against the traders of the town complaining against strangers ivho come selling victuals, &‘c., to the convenience of the scholars. §5. Item ad petitionem eorundem petentium remedium de eo, hEcIw. II, quod cum extranei venerint ad villam Oxonie cum victualibus, etc., ad maximum commodum scolarium ibidem commorancium, mercatores