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Abbot of Bindon. King and council. Abbot of Bindon The abbot shows that Montagu has...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/37/1831

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Reference
SC 8/37/1831
Date
[c. 1331]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Bindon.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Bindon
Nature of request
The abbot shows that Montagu has ruined the house by the maintenance of the coroner who he made his steward, and procured an appealer to accuse the monks who did not assent to him. The coroner has revealed himself by many actions not to be suitable for his office so that the abbot requests that the coroner is removed from his office, and another suitable person is put in his place
Nature of endorsement
He should sue in Chancery.
Places mentioned
Bindon, [Dorset].
People mentioned
John de Montagu, monk of Bindon
William de Stoke, Coroner of Dorset and steward of Bindon
Walter de la Siverye, monk of Bindon.
Note
The petition must date to c. 1331. It is not clear whether this petition precedes SC 8/37/1829, but it is very clear that these two petitions and SC 8/37/1830 are all closely linked and produced within a short space of time, and all concern the injury that Montagu had done the house (CPR 1330-4, pp.63, 89, 131, 142).
Related material

For another petition on a related matter by the same petitioner see SC 8/37/1830

For a further petition relating to this house see SC 8/37/1829

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

For a related petition see SC 8/239/11943

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1273
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), p.89 (appointment of individuals to arrest Montagu, an apostate monk) & p.142 (writ of aid to individuals taking Montagu back to Bindon)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062033/

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