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Abbot of St Benet of Hulme King and council Abbot of St Benet of Hulme The Abbot...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1599

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Reference
SC 8/32/1599
Date
[c. 1314]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of St Benet of Hulme
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
Abbot of St Benet of Hulme
Nature of request
The Abbot of St Benet of Hulme states that his predecessors, through the charter of St Edward, King of England, had view of frankpledge in their manors of Swanton Abbot, Antingham and Thurgarton, which are in the hundreds of North Erpingham and South Erpingham, given to Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, by the gift of his father, and that her bailiffs expelled his predecessor from these views. He requests that they might be returned to him.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.He is to show his charter in Chancery and have a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that, when they have examined the memoranda of the Exchequer, they are to inform the king how, in what way and when those views came into the king's hand, and in whose hands they are now, and how the king is answered for them, and of other circumstances etc., so that the king might further do what is rightly etc.
Places mentioned
St Benet of Hulme, [Norfolk]
Swanton (Swanton Abbot), [Norfolk]
Antingham, [Norfolk]
Thurgarton, [Norfolk]
North Erpingham hundred, [Norfolk]
South Erpingham hundred, [Norfolk]
People mentioned
Eleanor [of Castile], Queen of England
Edward [I], King of England
Nicholas, Abbot of St Benet of Hulme
Note
The similar petition edited by Rot. Parl. vol. I p.299b (no.41), is enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster at the octave of St Hilary, 8 Edward II (1315). This petition is not identical, but probably dates to about the same period. The petition in Rot. Parl. vol. I p.299b (no. 41) states that the hundreds have now been assigned to John de Clavering, so might be slightly later.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1090
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.299b (no.41) (enrolment of related petition from same petitioner on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061796/

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