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Avas delivered m January 1280. i he Exchequer abbey
record from which it is quoted affords evidence that
even then the conflict was not ended ; for the whole
story, as it is here analysed, is recorded, not in
documents of 1267 nor of 1280, but in one drawn up
in 1307, entitled '*
Placita coram Domino rege apud
Westmonasterium de termino Sancte Trinitatis anno
regis Edwardi filii regis Henrici trecessimo quinto "
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these being the pleas for a trial before Edward L in
1307, when those of the earlier suits, as given above,
were recited. What the result of this action was
does not appear, though from subsequent events we
may reasonably conjecture that the burgesses were
again found in default, and ordered to keep to the
terms of their partnership with the monks. For in
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1326 they endeavoured to get rid of the partnership
altogether, and oust the monks from their last share in
the multure of the town.
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Encouraged by an extra- Hist. Shby.,
ordinary mark of royal notice, and by a confirmation of"*
their old charters [in 1323], the corporation ventured
shortly after, namely, at the Parliament holden in the
nineteenth year of Edward the Second's reign, to
remind him of his promise of a new charter, and to
solicit further indulgences." Among these latter they
boldly asked ''
permission to make engyns de moudre
lour bleez et bretz "— engines to grind their corn and
malt. But in the meantime the barometer of the royal
favour had gone down again, and Edward IL did not
accede to their requests. In the following January
Edward IIL came to the throne, and a favourable
occasion ere long presenting itself, the citizens
petitioned the young king and obtained at last, on
May 12, 1328, the sovereign's licence to erect within
the town the desired ''
ingenia per que blada et
brasia molere possent." Thenceforward any one in
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