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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of Abingdon. King and lords of parliament. The Abbot and convent...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1042
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Abingdon. King and lords of parliament. The Abbot and convent... dating from [1391] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/21/1042
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1391]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Abingdon.
- Addressees
- King and lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The Abbot and convent of Abingdon state that they have always had the right to all burials in the villages of Abingdon, Drayton, Radley and others, until the vicar of the church of St Helen, Abingdon, by a papal bull, without permission from them or the king, created a cemetery on their land around his church. The Abbot and convent, understanding this to be alienation in mortmain, entered this land; but the king's escheator, for the same reason, seized the land into the king's hand, expelling them. They request that the office by reason of which the escheator did this be brought before the king in the present parliament, and that justice and reason be done to the abbot and convent.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition is to be sent to Chancery, and the Chancellor, by authority of parliament, is to have the parties appear before him in Chancery, and there, when the matter contained in this petition has been examined, and the arguments of the parties heard, what justice and reason and good faith and good conscience demand is to be done, by authority of parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Abingdon, [Berkshire]
- Drayton, [Berkshire]
- Radley, [Berkshire].
- People mentioned
- The vicar of the church of St Helen, Abingdon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III::p.297a (no. 1) assigns this petition to the parliament held at Westminster in November 1391. These identifications are not always reliable, but in this case, the endorsement is worded identically to that of SC 8/21/1041A, which was presented at that parliament, making it likely that this petition too was from that year.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/88/4392
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 115
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.297a (no.1) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061205/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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