Abbot of St Mary's, York King and council Abbot of St Mary's, York The Abbot of St...

Petitioners

Abbot of St Mary's, York

Addressees

King and council

Occupation

Abbot of St Mary's, York

Nature of request

The Abbot of St Mary's, York, states that he and his predecessors have had a tithe of venison in the forests of Yorkshire by gift of Henry II, and that John de Crombwell, then Keeper of the Forest north of the Trent, at the procurement of the ministers of the forest of Galtres, petitioned the parliament held at York in the second year of the king's reign that the venison from this forest might be replaced by the venison from the forest of Spaunton. An inquisition ad quod damnum was held, and the king, informed of the results of this at the discussions held at York in the same year, granted this exchange to Abbot Alan, the predecessor of the current Abbot, for five years. However, there is much less venison in the forest of Spaunton than in the forest of Galtres, so he asks that he might either have the tithe from the forest of Galtres again, or the tithe from the forest of Spaunton in perpetuity and permission to purchase £20 worth of land outside his fee in compensation for his past and future losses.

Nature of endorsement

He is to have the venison of the said Forest of Spaunton for the term of another five years.

Places mentioned

York

Yorkshire

forest of Galtres, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

forest of Spaunton, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

People mentioned

Henry II, King of England

John de Crombwell (Cromwell), Keeper of the Forest north of the Trent

Alan, Abbot of St Mary's, York

For the inquisition ad quod damnum held at the time of the original exchange, see C 143/198/24

• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.177 (grant to the petitioners of the venison of the Forest of Spaunton for another five years, as a result of their petition)
• The Honor and Forest of Pickering, North Riding Record Society, new series,, Ed. R.B. Turton, (North Riding Record Society, 1896), pp.258-259 (full edition and calendar of petition)