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Friars Minor (Franciscans) of Bury St Edmunds. King. The friars request that the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/21

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Reference
SC 8/1/21
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Friars Minor (Franciscans) of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The friars request that the courthouse of Cattishall which is to be removed by the procurement of certain people should not be rebuilt to the damage and nuisance of the friars, as at another time the king commanded William de Suttone, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk that it should be built by the sheriff where the people have provided, that this will be to the great harm and damage of the friars because when it rains or it is stormy the people seek refuge for themselves and their horses in the church of the friars; at other times when they are assembled the friars are unable to say mass because of the noise and press of the people. The friars request that so that their masses are not disturbed that the king, if he wishes, should command by his letters that if the courthouse should be removed that it be rebuilt closer to the town so that the people may have more convenient recourse to it.
Nature of endorsement
The king orders that if they wish to build that hall, they should set it up in such a place that it should not be to the damage of the friars.
Places mentioned
Catteshale (Cattishall), [Suffolk]
People mentioned
William de Suttone (Sutton), Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 based on the date assigned in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.157b (no.18). It can be no later than 1305 when the king granted that the abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds could move the court from Cattishall.
Related material

For a related petition from the abbot of Bury St Edmunds, see SC 8/140/6998

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2926
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.367 (grant that the court can be moved from Cattishall)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.157b (no.18) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
  • Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. II, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LVII, 1938), pp. cxxxvi-vii (entry a) (full edition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060133/

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