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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of Beaulieu King and council The Abbot and convent of Beaulieu...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1580
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/32/1580
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1317]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Beaulieu
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The Abbot and convent of Beaulieu state that King John, founder of their house, granted them the site of their house and other lands and tenements in the New Forest, in perpetual alms, because of which they have had common right of pasture in the forest at all times of the year for all animals except goats, without having a special clause in their charter for this: and as a result new ministers of the forest often obstruct them in this right. They request an inquisition into whether the king can grant them his charter for this right, without damage to himself, the forest, or others.
- Nature of endorsement
- John de Foxle, William de Harden and John Randolf, or any two of them who should happen to be present, are to be appointed to inquire into the contents of the petition, and if the aforesaid Abbot and convent had these rights of common in the aforesaid forest, as has been said, or not; and if so then from what time, and how, and in what way, and from what time they have been obstructed in them, and by whom etc.; and if it is to the harm etc., as is contained in the petition etc. And the Queen is to be instructed to send some informed person in her place, on the day and at the place that the justices will tell her etc., to be present at the inquisition etc.
- Places mentioned
- Beaulieu, [Hampshire]
- the New Forest, [Hampshire]
- People mentioned
- John, King of England
- John de Foxle
- William de Harden
- John Randolf
- [Isabella of France], Queen of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? c. 1317, with reference to CPR 1321-4 p.366, which is dated at Berkeley, 6 February 1324. It mentions the appointment of John de Foxle, William de Harden and Hugh de Hamslape to arrent the King's wastes in the New Forest on 9 December 11 Edward II (1317). Two of these men are also appointed by the endorsement of this petition, and the two matters may well be linked.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1156
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.366 (grant to the Abbot and Convent of several pieces of waste in the New Forest, on condition that they do not claim rights of common elsewhere in the Forest)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061777/
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