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? petitioner name(s) illegible Copy of a writ to Cambridge and Leycester reciting...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/545B

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Reference
SC 8/11/545B
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Copy of a writ to Cambridge and Leycester reciting that by a petition of the abbot of St Albans received in parliament before the king and council containing that Garinus late abbot of St Albans acquired the mill of Little Langley from Ralph Cheynduit, who granted it to William Cheynduit for 20s. per annum which they received until the death of Queen Eleanor when it was in arrears to the 3rd year of the reign of Edward II to the grave damage and disinheritance of the church of St Albans. The king has assigned them to enquire into the abbey's acquisition of the mill, and the payment of the rents and services by the oaths of upright and law-worthy men.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
St Albans, [Hertfordshire]
Westminster
Little Langley, [Hertfordshire].
People mentioned
John de Cantebrige (Cambridge)
William de Leycester (Leicester)
Abbot of St Albans
Garinus, Abbot of St Albans
Ralph Cheyndut (Cheynduit)
William Cheyndut (Cheynduit)
John de Berkhamstede (Berkhamsted), Abbot of St Albans
John de Marins, Abbot of St Albans
Stephen [Cheynduit] son of William [Cheynduit]
Hugh de Everesdon, Abbot of St Albans
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England.
Note
The writ is dated to 1334 with SC 8/11/546, the petition with which it was formerly enclosed. The writ itself is dated by the dating clause to 9 January 1331 (4 Edw. III).
Related material

For the inquisition formally appended to this writ see SC 8/11/545A

For the petition formally appended to this writ see SC 8/11/546

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 93
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060680/

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