Petition from the abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds concerning sureties from the townspeople after their uprising
The Abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds state that the people of Bury St Edmunds are delaying providing the security of perpetual peace demanded of them towards the King and towards the Abbot and convent, after their late rebellion, and ask that an ordinance might be made for this in the present parliament. They ask that the recognisances might be made based on the lands held by the people of Bury at the time of the Lent parliament of 6 Richard II, as many of them have since alienated their lands; that six named people, present in this parliament, might be compelled to make the recognisances before they leave Salisbury, that fifty other people might be summoned to make them in Chancery at the quindene of Trinity next, and that commissioners might be appointed to come to Bury to take them from the rest. They also ask that sufficient punishment might be ordained for those refusing to make these recognisances.
