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Abbot of Bordesle (Bordesley). King and council. Abbot of Bordesle (Bordesley) The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/35/1707

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Reference
SC 8/35/1707
Date
[1324]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Bordesle (Bordesley).
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Bordesle (Bordesley)
Nature of request
The abbot shows that one of his predecessors purchased land in King's Norton from Wychhalle before the statute of Mortmain. Walewayn, late the escheator, alleged that the abbot had purchased it after the statute without licence and took the land into the king's hand. It was found by an inquisition made by writs returned into Chancery that the land was purchased before the statute, but the chancellor did not wish to grant a writ de ouster le main. The abbot requests remedy to remove his hand, and render to him the issues in the meantime.
Nature of endorsement
The inquisition in Chancery should be viewed, and if the inquisition agrees with the petition, and the tenement is not held from the king in chief then he should have a writ to the escheator that he should remover his hand and deliver the issues.
Places mentioned
Bordesley, [Warwickshire]
King's Norton, [Warwickshire].
People mentioned
Robert de Wychhalle
John Walewayn, Escheator.
Note
The petition dates to 1324 when John de Hampton, escheator in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Salop and Staffordshire was ordered to stop intermeddling further in the lands and restore the issue (CCR 1323-7, p.83). The reference within the petition to the activities of John de Walwayn, the late escheator can be dated to 1322 (CIM 1307-49, no.523; CCR 1318-23, p.574).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 398
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.574 (order to the escheator not to intermeddle further and restore the issues from the land)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.83 (order to the escheator not to intermeddle further and restore the issues from the land)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.523 (writ and inquisition concerning the abbot's acquisition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061906/

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