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Petitioners

Abbot of Tintern.

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Occupation

Abbot of Tintern

Nature of request

The Abbot of Tintern, who for seven years and more in Richard II's reign, was collector of the tenth granted by the clergy in the province of Canterbury and diocese of Llandaff, states that the people from whom he was to collect this money refused to pay, about which he petitioned in various parliaments in King Richard's time, obtaining writs of supersedeas but no remedy. Despite this, the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer summoned him to render account for what he had not levied, and are now distraining him for this. He requests that he might be pardoned and acquitted this sum and the levy of the money, considering that he has done his best, that many of the lands and tenements which are refusing to pay are in the king's hands through the minority of the heir of the Earl of March and the forfeiture of Lord Despenser, and that he has petitioned from parliament to parliament, both in the present king's time and in the late king's, and that both his own possessions and the land where the levy should take place have been destroyed by the Welsh rebels.

Nature of endorsement

The abbot mentioned here is to have respite from the demand made on him, as is contained in this petition, until the next parliament, and furthermore, the same abbot is to have a writ of supersedeas addressed to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to stay proceedings in the same demand until the said next parliament.

Places mentioned

Tintern, [Monmouthshire, Wales]

Wales

Province of Canterbury

Diocese of Llandaff, [Wales].

People mentioned

Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer

[Edmund de Mortimer], Earl of March

[Thomas le Despenser], Lord Despenser.

A duplicate of this petition is SC 8/144/7162

A related petition is SC 8/22/1099

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.36 (brief calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.481b (no.7) (full edition of a later copy of a related petition) & p.521b (no.21) (full edition of a related petition or of a later copy of it)