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Abbot of Cormeilles. King Abbot of Cormeilles The abbot states that whereas he does...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/60

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Reference
SC 8/2/60
Date
[1308-9]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Cormeilles.
Addressees
King
Occupation
Abbot of Cormeilles
Nature of request
The abbot states that whereas he does not have any daughter house in England, but he does hold in demesne and he answers for the issues by his demesne bailiffs who are removable at his will; the prior of St Barbe who holds the church of Beckford from the abbot renders to the abbot 60 marks per annum for the church, which 60 marks was at one time for the use of the abbot, but which the prior afterwards detained from the abbot by the statute made at Carlisle, by virtue of which the prior claimed he dare not pay. The abbot requests remedy and clarification of the statute if he meant to hold it to those who hold in right of aliens but hold nothing except in their demesne just as he means to hold it to those others who have daughter houses in England and answer by way of payments and contributions.1)
Nature of endorsement
Before the council.2) Let it be to him, and a like writ.
Places mentioned
Cormeilles, [Normandy, France]
Ste-Barbe-en-Auge, [Normandy, France]
Beckford, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Prior of St Barbe.
Note
The petition is dated to 1308-9 by the headings from the Hale Ms. in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.273, which makes this 'Petitions in Parliament 2 Edw. II'. Confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 273-280, which states 'Although the petitions probably do all belong to 2 Edward II (1308-1309), there is nothing to indicate whether they were actually delivered or answered during any of the parliaments held during that year.'
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1550
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 274b-275a (no.10) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 273-280, no. 10 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060172/

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