Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St Albans. Wallingford Richard King and council....

Petitioners

Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St Albans.

Name(s)

Wallingford, Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of St Albans

Nature of request

The abbot having petitioned in several parliaments requests a writ to the keeper of Little Langley that he pay the money to the abbot for the rent of the mill there, which rent has been detained since Queen Eleanor bought the manor. In addition he requests a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that the arrearages of the rent for the preceding three years be allowed to the abbot at the Exchequer in the debts that he owes to the king there.

Nature of endorsement

The petition is to be sent into Chancery, and when the inquest which the petition makes mention of has been viewed, if it is found that the predecessors of the abbot were seised of the rent as the petition alleges, that then the chancellor is to do justice of the arrearages of the rent.

Places mentioned

St Albans, [Hertfordshire]

Little Langley, [Hertfordshire].

People mentioned

Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England

Isabella of France, Queen of England.

For the inquest formally appended to this petition see SC 8/11/545A

for a writ formally appended to this petition see SC 8/11/545B

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.235-6 (writ issued in response to the petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.80b (no.33) (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. II, pp. 73-89, no. 33 (summary of references)