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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John of Nottingham, abbot of Welbeck. Nottingham John King and council abbot of Welbeck...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/390
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/390
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1324-1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John of Nottingham, abbot of Welbeck.
- Name(s)
- Nottingham, John
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- abbot of Welbeck
- Nature of request
- The abbot of Welbeck states that his grange of Gladthorp is partly within Sherwood Forest and partly without, but the chief messuage without, and that he holds this grange in pure and perpetual alms, of the gifts of their feoffors, as shown by their charters and confirmed by King John. He is now distrained for puture for the foresters, whereas he and his predecessors and their feoffors have always been quit of this. He requests a writ to the keeper of Sherwood Forest, that he might not be charged contrary to the form of his feoffment and the king's confirmation.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be issued to the justices of the forest that, when they have examined the charters and enquired into the truth of the contents of the petition, on the oath both of knights etc., who are not suspected etc., they are not to charge the abbot with puture contrary to the tenor of his charters and other than used to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Welbeck, [Nottinghamshire]
- Gladthorp, [Nottinghamshire]
- Sherwood Forest, [Nottinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- John, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
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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 8817
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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)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.429a, no.48 (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. 416-429, no. 48 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060514/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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