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Prior and convent of Barnwell. King and council. The prior and convent state that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/15/738

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Reference
SC 8/15/738
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of Barnwell.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The prior and convent state that they were granted the vill of Chesterton by King John to hold at fee farm, and had the king's warren there from the time of the gift until Despenser procured that the king put in a warrener, who received until now two pence a day when the warren was only worth 12d. per annum, so that the prior is ousted. They request that the king order that the prior is able to have the warren as his predecessors had it before they were ousted.
Nature of endorsement
Let certain people be assigned to enquire etc. in the presence etc. of what time the prior was seised of the warren, and when he was ousted, and the cause, and the records of the last one or two eyres be searched if necessary, and the inquisition returned, and the court certified so that justice can be done.
Places mentioned
Barnwell, [Cambridgeshire]
Chesterton, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
John, King of England
Hugh le Despenser.
Note
The petition dates to 1331 as it appears to be contemporary with a similar petition by the prior, both of which petitions generated an inquisition of 1331 (C 81/214, no. 13).
Related material

For another contemporary petition by the priory concerning Chesterton, see SC 8/33/1624

For an inquisition into the prior's right of return of writs and warren, see no. 13 in C 81/214

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1136
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.393b (no.89) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060879/

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