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Thomas de Berkeleie (Berkeley). de Berkeleie (Berkeley) Thomas King. Berkeleie requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/694

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Reference
SC 8/14/694
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de Berkeleie (Berkeley).
Name(s)
de Berkeleie (Berkeley), Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Berkeleie requests that he may have a writ to the abbot to have delivery of his muniments and other goods and chattels which were seized by the ministers of the king and remain in the abbots keeping under their seals.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered by a writ of Chancery to those who arrested the things contained in this petition, that they should certify in Chancery the reason for the arrest of the same things, and upon this certification justice is to be done to him.
People mentioned
Abbot of St Augustine's of Bristol
Richard Lovel.
Note
If this is indeed the same petition for which an English translation of a Latin summary survives in BL Titus E.1, then it dates to the parliament held at Westminster in 1327 (Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., pp.141, and 144).
Related material

For another petition possibly from the same petitioner, see SC 8/33/1618

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1152
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.144 (no.5) (full edition of petition and English translation of Latin summary of the same petition on parliament roll)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.385b (no.38) (full edition of original petition) & p.430b (no.19) (English translation of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060835/

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