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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 discharged from the levy and from the payment of the residue of the sums, considering that he has done his best.

Nature of endorsement

The above-mentioned abbot is to have a writ of supersedeas addressed to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to stay proceedings, with regard to the sums demanded from him and mentioned in this petition, until the next parliament.

Places mentioned

Tintern, [Monmouthshire, Wales]

Province of Canterbury

Diocese of Llandaff, [Wales].

People mentioned

Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer.

A related petition is SC 8/22/1074

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.37 (very brief calendar)
• 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)