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Free Sokemen of Bozeat King and council The sokemen state that the Abbot of St James...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/35/1711

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Reference
SC 8/35/1711
Date
[1315]
Description
Petitioners
Free Sokemen of Bozeat
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The sokemen state that the Abbot of St James outside Northampton has claimed from them services which they should not perform. They complained about this and obtained a writ of monstraverunt, but the Abbot has ill-treated them in many ways as a result. They request the king's grace and aid in this matter, and a letter to the Exchequer to search Domesday so that they might know how the land ought to be held, as a replacement for a letter previously granted to them, which was stolen from their attorney. They also ask that the Abbot might be ordered to show his evidence for his claim. They ask the king's grace and aid to be maintained in their rightful estate, paying their proper annual rent as the charter of Domesday demands.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bosyate (Bozeat), Northamptonshire
Thingden (Finedon), [Northamptonshire]
Northampton, [Northamptonshire]
St Albans
[Hertfordshire]
Naveslund hundred, [Northamptonshire]
the honour of Peveril
Wollaston, [Northamptonshire]
Struxton (Strixton), [Northamptonshire]
People mentioned
Nicholas [de Flore], Abbot of St James outside Northampton
Thomas de [surname missing due to damage to ms], sokeman
Hugh le Carpenter, attorney of the petitioners
Edward [the Confessor], King of England
Edith, Queen of England
William de Deneford.
Note
Dated on dorse to 'c.1315', referring to C/81/93 no 3530. Nicholas de Flore, abbot of St James outside Northampton 1298-1334. The petition also mentions the homage done in the king's ninth year.
Related material

For the privy seal warrant in which this petition was formerly enclosed see no. 3530 in C 81/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1242
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061910/

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