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Abbot of Fecamp. King and council. Abbot of Fecamp The abbot of Fecamp complains...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/216

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Reference
SC 8/5/216
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Fecamp.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Fecamp
Nature of request
The abbot of Fecamp complains that the mayor and freemen of Winchelsea, in enclosing their town - which belongs to the king - at the king's command, have included within the town ditch many of the abbot's tenements in Higham, so that the abbot has lost the rents from these. He requests compensation for this damage, or an exchange with the king for lands elsewhere.
Nature of endorsement
The council is to consider what is to be done, but the petition should also be coram rege.The constable of Dover castle and the Warden of the Cinque Ports are to be ordered to enquire into the contents of the petition (except for the exchange), and to inform the king.Nothing is to be done about the exchange without the king.
Places mentioned
Fescampe (Fecamp), [France]
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Iham (Higham), [Sussex].
People mentioned
Mayor and freemen (barons) of the ports of Winchelsea.
Note
The petition is dated to 1322 on the basis of an inquisition ordered into the petitioner's claims which is dated at Rothwell, 6 June 15 Edward II (1322) (CIM 1307-49, p.140 (no.554)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3523
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.140 (no.554) (writ to Edmund Earl of Kent to hold inquisition, and findings of that inquisition, that the mayor and barons of Winchelsea have enclosed a plot of the soil of the Abbot of Fecamp)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.393a-b, no.34 (full edition of 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. 387-415, no. 34 (summary of references)
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