Prior and Convent of Tutbury. King. The prior and Convent of Tutbury state that at...

Petitioners

Prior and Convent of Tutbury.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The prior and Convent of Tutbury state that at his Lent parliament the king granted them certain justices, namely Roger de Brabazun and William de Bereford to hear and determine (oyer and terminer) the wrongs done to them by the Earl of Lancaster's bailiffs; they now request that these justices be given a warrant to hear and determine the wrongs done to them since then; for the bailiffs have since increased their injustices. The prior states that he is ready to put himself in the earl's grace on all matters, except the estate of their church. They have often made requests to the earl, the Queen, the Prince and other great lords on this matter, but without success.

Nature of endorsement

The commission is to be renewed for the whole period which has passed.

Places mentioned

Tutbury, [Staffordshire].

People mentioned

Roger de Brabazun (Brabazon), justice

William de Bereford, justice

[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

Earl of Lancaster's bailiffs

[Margaret of France], Queen of England

[Edward of Caernarfon, Earl of Chester], son of Edward I.

For transcript, see p.139 of PRO 31/7/93

For a later related petition from the Prior of Tutbury, see SC 8/77/3805

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.405-6 (commission to Roger le Brabazon and William de Bereford in response to prior's petition); p.353 (commission to same justices in response to similar earlier petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.477a, no.100 (full edition of original document)
• 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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.20 (summary of references to petition)