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Richard de Gainsborough, Abbot of Bardney. de Gainsborough Richard King. Abbot of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/31/1541

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Reference
SC 8/31/1541
Date
[c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Gainsborough, Abbot of Bardney.
Name(s)
de Gainsborough, Richard
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Bardney
Nature of request
The Abbot of Bardney states that, when on the information of the Bishop of Lincoln given to the king's father, Robert, formerly Abbot of Bardney was removed from office, the temporalities of the abbey were seized into the hand of the king's father, and the prior and convent made fine at the Exchequer to have the issues of the temporalities during the vacancy; but that when Robert was reinstated by process in the court of Rome, the king pardoned them this fine by a writ of his privy seal. The present king has ordered the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to allow that writ, by a writ of Chancery in the sixth year of his reign, but Thomas Fitz Eustace, formerly Sheriff of Lincolnshire, had already levied £40 of that fine. The abbot requests an allowance for this in the debts which he owes at the Exchequer.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.The Treasurer and Barons are to be ordered to hear the party, and are to search all the things touching this business, and to inform the king on this.
Places mentioned
Bardney, [Lincolnshire]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
Rome, [Italy].
People mentioned
Bishop of Lincoln
Edward [I], King of England
Robert [de Waynflet (Wainfleet)], Abbot of Bardney
Thomas son of Eustace (Fitz Eustace), Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Note
Dated on the guard to '? c. 1318' with reference to the resignation of Robert [de Wainfleet], the late abbot. This date is probably right: see David Smith's 'Heads of Religious houses' book under Bardney for details.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1171
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.349 (restitution to Robert de Waynflet, Abbot of Bardney, of the temporalities of his abbey, in compliance with a request from the Pope)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061737/

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