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Abbot of Evesham King and council Abbot of Evesham The Abbot of Evesham states that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/46/2252

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Reference
SC 8/46/2252
Date
[c. 1344]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Evesham
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
Abbot of Evesham
Nature of request
The Abbot of Evesham states that by an assize of novel disseisin he recovered his seisin of certain tenements in Weethley in Warwickshire as of the right of his church, against John Musard and others, and because of this John has gathered together various malefactors to go to the vill of Weethley to harass the abbot and his servants there, and they have often gone armed to the vill to lie in wait for the Abbot's men and servants, and entered the Abbot's woods there with force and arms and prevented his men and servants from carrying wood out of them, against the form of the statutes and against the king's peace. He requests a suitable remedy.
Nature of endorsement
He is to have a writ at common law; and if he wants to have a writ of oyer and terminer, he is to have it for a reasonable fine, to be made in Chancery.
Places mentioned
Evesham, [Worcestershire]
Wytheleye (Weethley), Warwickshire
People mentioned
John Musard
Note
CPR 1343-5 p.288 is dated at Westminster, 20 April 1344. The attacks listed there seem somewhat different from those in this petition, so perhaps it is in response to a later incident, although it might be a response to the endorsement. In either case it must be roughly contemporary.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2970
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1343-1345, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.288 (commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by the Abbot of attacks by John Musard and others)
  • Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.748 (reference to petition in context of its response)
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