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Ralph de Borne, abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury. de Borne Ralph King. abbot of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/651

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Reference
SC 8/14/651
Date
[c. 1308-c. 1309]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph de Borne, abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury.
Name(s)
de Borne, Ralph
Addressees
King.
Occupation
abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury
Nature of request
Petition in two parts:1) The abbot shows that he holds the hundreds at fee farm by gift of Edward I by which he ought to have various presentments and fines. However the sheriff makes the people of the hundred appear before him to make presentments so that the abbot cannot have the profits from them so that he prays remedy.2) Whereas the abbot and his predecessors have view of frankpledge in all of their manors in the county, the sheriff by compulsion and heavy distraints makes the abbot's tenants present before him and his tourn so that the abbot is not able to have the profits form the view. The abbot requests that the king grant, renew and confirm this ancient right or order some other suitable remedy so that the abbot can exercise his liberty without disturbance.
Nature of endorsement
He should have a writ of Chancery to the treasurers and barons of the Exchequer that they call the parties before them and hear the arguments of the abbot and do justice to him, so that no complaint is made to the king.
Places mentioned
Canterbury, [Kent]
Ringslow hundred, [Kent]
Bleangate hundred, [Kent]
Downhamford hundred, [Kent].
People mentioned
Sheriff of Kent.
Note
This is dated to 1308-09 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.273, where it is noted as 'petitions in parliament' from 2 Edward II, being petitions from a Hale manuscript. PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 273-280, no. 32 confirms this date.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 316
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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.279a-b (no.32) (full edition of a later copy of 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 273-280, no. 32 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060792/

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