John Rypon (Ripon), Abbot of Fountains. Rypon (Ripon) John Commons of parliament....

Petitioners

John Rypon (Ripon), Abbot of Fountains.

Name(s)

Rypon (Ripon), John

Addressees

Commons of parliament.

Occupation

Abbot of Fountains

Nature of request

John Rypon states that, on Sunday 6 May last, as he was coming to the king to sue for restitution of various church ornaments and other goods, taken from the abbey by Roger Frank, who had lately intruded into the office of abbot, and his adherents, and to appear before the King's Bench in answer to a writ, Oliver Frank, Roger's brother, and Robert his kinsman, at the command of Roger and his brother Ralph, laid in wait for him at Welbeck Park, with more than forty armed men, in order to kill him, and wounded him and his servants with arrows. He asks the commons to ask the king to ordain a remedy in the present parliament, both for his salvation and that of his monks, servants and tenants, and for the return of the aforesaid goods.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] Soit baille au roy (It is to be delivered to the king).[On dorse] It seems to the king that the supplicant has sufficient remedy through the common law.

Places mentioned

Fountains, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Welbeck Park, [Nottinghamshire]

Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].

People mentioned

Roger Frank, monk of Fountains

Ralph [Frank], brother of Roger Frank

Oliver Frank, brother of Roger Frank

Robert Frank, kinsman of Roger Frank

George Swale, servant of John Rypon

Thomas Neuton (Newton), servant of John Rypon.

For a related petition from Roger Frank against John Rypon is SC 8/23/1124

A more general petition on the same matters from the same petitioner, mentioning this one is SC 8/18/885

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen V, vol. I, 1413-1419, (Public Record Office, 1929), pp.112-3 (memorandum concerning information laid in Chancery concerning the dispute between John Rypon and Roger Frank)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. I, 1413-1416, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.145,147 (two enrolments of the commission of Fountains abbey and its possessions to the archbishop of York and bishop of Durham, as a result of the dispute between Roger Frank and John de Ripon over the abbacy) & p.180 (appointment of John de Ripon as abbot of Fountains)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.27b-28a (no. 2) (full edition of original petition)