? petitioner name(s) illegible Copy of an inquest made before Cambridge and Leycester...

Petitioners

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Nature of request

Copy of an inquest made before Cambridge and Leycester whereupon the jurors say on oath that Garinus, abbot of St Albans in the time of King Henry II acquired the mill of Little Langley from Ralph Cheynduit. Garinus granted the same mill to William, Ralph's son and heir for 20s. per annum. The abbot's successors continued to receive the rent until Queen Eleanor acquired the manor and mill when her bailiff detained the rent. Following a suit made by Hugh, late abbot of St Albans, Edward II fully satisfied the abbot for arrears up to the 3rd year of his reign, but from then on it has been withdrawn, and that no abbot has received any recompense for the service and rent, and nor have they remised and quitclaimed them to any of the parties.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

St Albans, [Hertfordshire]

Westminster

Little Langley, [Hertfordshire].

People mentioned

John de Cauntebrige (Cambridge)

William de Leycestre (Leycester, Leicester)

Roger de Gildesburgh (Guilsborough), the king's steward of the manor of Little Langley

Walter de Cheynduyt (Cheynduit)

Thomas Bolystrode (Bolestrode)

[Thomas atte Ford]

Mark son of Luke

John de Stratle

Adam de Heuedene

William de Dounhamstede (Dunhampstead)

John atte Ponde

[Richard] de Wygynton (Wigginton)

William [de Dounhamstede (Dunhampstead)] son of Richard de Dounhamstede

[John de Watford]

Gilbert atte Wynche

Garinus, late Abbot of St Albans

Ralph Cheynduit

William Cheynduit, son and heir of Ralph Cheynduit

Ralph Cheynduit, son and heir of William Cheynduit

Stephen [Cheynduit], son and heir of Ralph Cheynduit

Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England

Geoffrey de Pichford, Queen Eleanor's bailiff of the manor of Langley

Robert le Parker, King Edward I's bailiff of the manor of Langley

Edward I, King of England

Edward II, King of England

Hugh, Abbot of St Albans.

For a petition formally appended to this inquisition see SC 8/11/546

For a writ formally appended to this inquisition see SC 8/11/545B

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.235-6 (writ reciting most of the text of this inquisition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.80b-81a (no.33) (full edition of a later copy of this inquisition)