Edward I: November 1296

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1296 November

Introduction Autumn 1296

Bury St Edmund's

Autumn parliament (November)

On 26 August 1296 writs of summons were issued for a meeting of parliament at Bury St Edmund's on the morrow of All Souls (on or shortly after 3 November). Those summoned included prelates and magnates and representatives of shires and towns and of the lower clergy. (fn. foot-1296n-1) Specially summoned were men from Canterbury, London and other towns who were to be consulted on the planning of a new town at Berwick on Tweed, though it was later decided to put off discussion of this topic till early January 1297. (fn. foot-1296n-2) Scottish secular landowners seem also to have been adjourned to appear here. (fn. foot-1296n-3) Parliament probably started a little after 3 November since the king did not reach Bury till sometime between 6 and 9 November. The main matter for discussion was probably the aid the king requested for the campaign in Gascony. (fn. foot-1296n-4) This session of parliament was also timed to coincide with the marriage between the king's daughter and John, the son of the count of Holland. (fn. foot-1296n-5) The king stayed in Bury till 29 November and it was on that very day that the lay representatives in parliament granted the king a subsidy of a twelfth and an eighth. (fn. foot-1296n-6) The clerical representatives felt unable to do this because of the pope's recent prohibition and were adjourned to give a further response to the king's request at Westminster in January. (fn. foot-1296n-7) It was probably on 29 November that this session of parliament also ended.

There is no surviving official record of the business done at this parliament. It was evidently intended that various inquisitions ad quod damnum into mortmain alienations be considered there, for they are made returnable to this parliament and instructions were given that the grantee be told to appear there, but none of the proposed alienations was licensed prior to 1299 and it must remain doubtful whether they were even considered here. (fn. foot-1296n-8)

Footnotes

  • foot-1296n-1. PW , i, 47-8 (and CCR 1288-96 , 513).
  • foot-1296n-2. CCR 1288-96 , 515, 522; PW , i, 49. Arrangements were, however, made there for the working of a new exchequer at Berwick: CCR 1288-96 , 498-9, 500
  • foot-1296n-3. Stevenson, Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland , ii, 31.
  • foot-1296n-4. Annales Monastici , iii, 404.
  • foot-1296n-5. Annales Monastici , iii, 404.
  • foot-1296n-6. Vincent, Lancashire Lay Subsidies , 195
  • foot-1296n-7. Annales Monastici , iii, 404 (Dunstable); Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough , 286.
  • foot-1296n-8. C 143/23, no. 20 (issued on 12 November 1295; no licence recorded);/24, no. 15 (issued on same day; no licence recorded); /25, no. 17 (issued on 29 November 1295: no licence till 8 June 1299 and after fine: CPR 1292-1301 , 421); /25, no. 3 (issued on 12 January 1296; no licence recorded); /25, no. 21 (issued on 1 February 1296; no licence till 1 April 1299: CPR 1292-1301 , 402; /25, no. 5 (issued on 26 March 1296; no licence recorded); /25, no. 6 (issued on 12 May 1296; no licence till 27 March 1299: CPR 1292-1301 , 401); /25, no. 9 (issued on 2 July 1296; no licence issued till 18 September 1299 and after surrender into king's hands and regrant: CPR 1292-1301 , 437).
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