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Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury King The Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury ask that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1413

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Reference
SC 8/29/1413
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury
Addressees
King
Nature of request
The Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury ask that the revenues of the priory of Goldcliff, recently granted to them so that four monks could pray there for the souls of Henry IV, Henry V, Queen Catherine and the Earl and Countess of Warwick, might be exempted from the current act of resumption, in the form appended to the petition.
Nature of endorsement
The king, on the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal has agreed to this provision, according to the tenor thereof.
Places mentioned
Tewkesbury, [Gloucestershire]
Goldcliff, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
the Welsh March
People mentioned
Henry IV, King of England
Henry V, King of England
Catherine [of Valois], Queen of England
Richard [Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick
Isabel [Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick]
Note
Despite the grant of Goldcliff to Eton college (CPR 1446-52 p.457), dated at Westminster, 2 April 1451, the monks of Tewksbury seem still to have it in their possession, as the proviso contained in this petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament of July 1455 (33 Henry VI)The original grant to them (CPR 1441-6 p.29), is dated at Dogmersfield, 9 December 1441. CPR 1441-6 p.271 is dated at Westminster, 15 March 1444, and the bull it confirms is dated at Florence, 1 August 1442.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8147
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. IV, 1441-1446, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.29 (grant of Goldcliff to the abbot and convent of Tewksbury) & p.271 (inspeximus and confirmation of a papal bull ratifying this grant)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.457 (grant of Goldcliff to Eton college)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.307b (partial transcription of petition on roll of parliament, among exceptions to an act of resumption)
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