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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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This record is about the Abbot of Evesham King and council Abbot of Evesham The Abbot of Evesham states that... dating from [c. 1344] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/46/2252
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1344]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 2970
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062462/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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