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Abbot and convent of Bindon King and council The abbot and convent show that they...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/37/1829

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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Bindon King and council The abbot and convent show that they... dating from [c. 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/37/1829
Date
[c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Bindon
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The abbot and convent show that they are totally ruined, and that their seal has been stolen by thieves, who have used it to forge blank charters of corrodies and pensions. They request that they are granted keepers with the power to defend them from such excesses.
Nature of endorsement
Let this bill be ordered into Chancery and the chancellor is to do what is to be done.
Places mentioned
Bindon, [Dorset]
Note
The petition must date to c. 1330 for commissions of oyer and terminer concerning further acts against the abbey whilst it was in the king's protection were issued in January and February 1331 (CPR 1330-4, pp.63, 131).
Related material

For a further petition relating to this house see SC 8/37/1830

For another petition by the abbot, see SC 8/93/4613

For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/239/11943

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1303
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), pp.63,131 (commissions of oyer and terminer into acts against the abbey)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062031/

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