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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Hospital of St Mary Magdalen (Colchester). King and council. The hospital state that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/20
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/1/20
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hospital of St Mary Magdalen (Colchester).
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The hospital state that they were founded by King Henry I at the same time as the abbey, being endowed with the tithes of the abbey, and with bread and beer from the abbey kitchen forever for which they had a charter from the king by which they enjoyed full seisin. They had this until the time of Abbot Adam who spoke nicely to the inmates so that they showed him their charter which he received and burned, and from then the abbot and his successors detained the tithes to the hospital's disinheritance.The abbey was also endowed with the vill of Brightlingsea from which the hospital received £6 per annum until the current abbot withheld it to the hospitals great damage.Finally, though the king is patron of the hospital, and no brother is to be admitted except with the assent of the inmates, the abbot came with a great number of men to the hospital and demanded their charters, and their common seal, and ordered them to swear an oath of obedience to him, and because brothers Simon de la Neylonde, master of the hospital, and William de Langham refused the abbot removed them from the church and shamefully illtreated them. The abbot's men ejected them from their house and put in a brother who ruined the house against the charters of the king.The inmates, because they are too weak to plead with the abbot request that the king assign his justices to enquire of the veracity of the matter, and that amends be made to them.
- Nature of endorsement
- R. de Retford and H. Spigurnel to enquire, hear and report back to the king at the next parliament following.
- Places mentioned
- Colescestre (Colchester), [Essex]
- Brithlingeseye (Brightlingsea), [Essex].
- People mentioned
- Henry I, King of England
- Adam [de Campes], abbot of Colchester
- Simon de la Neylonde, master of the hospital of Colchester
- William de Langham
- R. de Retford
- H[Henry] Spigurnel.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 based on the date assigned in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.157a-b.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1508
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.157a-b (no.17) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060132/
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