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Robert of Wainfleet, Abbot of Bardney. Wainfleet Robert King. Abbot of Bardney The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/9/440

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Reference
SC 8/9/440
Date
[1298-1307]
Description
Petitioners
Robert of Wainfleet, Abbot of Bardney.
Name(s)
Wainfleet, Robert
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Bardney
Nature of request
The abbot of Bardney states that the prior of his house made fine before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to have wardship of all the esplees of the house out of the king's hand, during the plea between the abbot and the bishop of Lincoln in the court of Canterbury, but that during that plea Walter de Gloucestre, the escheator received twenty-six pounds of their goods, which he should have returned, but has not. The abbot requests the return of the twenty-six pounds.
Nature of endorsement
He is to go to Chancery and have there a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, and they are to do for this petition what is to be done.
Places mentioned
Bardney, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Prior of Bardney
Bishop of Lincoln
Walter de Gloucestre (Gloucester), escheator [south of the Trent].
Note
Walter de Gloucestre was escheator south of the Trent between 26 May 1298 and 16 April 1311, according to the list of escheators. This petition, like the surrounding ones, appears to be from the end of the reign of Edward I (JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions 'all belong to the end of the reign of Edward I, with a heavy concentration in the year 1305'), which gives a date between 26 May 1298 and 7 July 1307. The date could probably be further narrowed, as CPR 1301-1307 p. 203 shows that the temporalities of Bardney abbey were in the king's hand, the abbot having been deposed (as seen from p.210), on 18 December 1303, but p.222 reveals that by May 10 1304 he had been restored.
Related material

For transcript, see p.21 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 527
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), p.468b, no.44 (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060566/

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