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Thomas de la Mare, Abbot of St Albans. Mare Thomas King and lords of parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/955

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Reference
SC 8/20/955
Date
[1381]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de la Mare, Abbot of St Albans.
Name(s)
Mare, Thomas
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Occupation
Abbot of St Albans
Nature of request
The abbot of St Albans states that during the disturbances of last June (the Peasants' Revolt of 1381), various people of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, both people from St Albans and other tenants of the abbot's, both free and villein, came to him, and, through duress and fear of the destruction of the abbey, forced him to make to them charters of their own devising, for various franchises and liberties. Although, by the king's authority, they later surrendered these, they have made various copies through which the abbot and his successors could be molested and disseised. He requests that it be ordained in the present parliament that all such charters, and the possessions obtained by virtue of them, be null and void.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
St Albans, [Hertfordshire]
Buckinghamshire
Hertfordshire.
People mentioned
People of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire
tenants of the Abbot of St Albans.
Note
This petition is clearly from the aftermath of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and was probably presented at the parliament of November 1381.
Related material

For transcript, see no.61 of PRO 31/7/108

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7516
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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.129a (no. 10) (full edition of duplicate petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061110/

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