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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert de Forensete, chaplain, formerly brother of the order of St Mary de Areno,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/47/2330
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This record is about the Robert de Forensete, chaplain, formerly brother of the order of St Mary de Areno,... dating from [c. 1279] 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 8/47/2330
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1279]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Forensete, chaplain, formerly brother of the order of St Mary de Areno, London
- Name(s)
- de Forensete, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- chaplain, formerly brother of the order of St Mary de Areno, London
- Nature of request
- Robert de Forensete, chaplain, formerly brother of the order of St Mary de Areno, London states that he and Simon de Tunstude were appointed Keepers of the house of their order in Norwich, with the assent of the whole chapter, a certain brother Walter de Croxton, who calls himself the Provincial Prior of the order in England, came often to that house and carried off its goods and ornaments to the value of £40, and when they refused to stand this any more he declared them fugitives and excommunicated. When they appealed to the head of their order, and received letters from him in their support, and also papal letters concerning other injuries inflicted upon them by the provincial, he came to a house where they were with other brothers of the order and with a great number of laymen, and carried them off to Cambridge, where he beat and wounded them and imprisoned them for forty days, where Simon died of hunger without confession. And Robert's friends could obtain no release for him through writs of the king, as the provincial had bribed the Sheriff. He requests a remedy, as the provincial has enough money to make satisfaction for the injury and the trespass against the king, and asks that he be swiftly arrested, as he is planning a bolt-hole abroad.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram episcopis (Before the bishops).
- Places mentioned
- London
- Norwich, [Norfolk]
- Cantebrigia (Cambridge), Cambridgeshire
- People mentioned
- Simon de Tunstude, lay-brother of the order of St Mary de Areno
- Walter de Croxton, brother of the order of St Mary de Areno
- H[Hugh] de Kendale (Kendal)
- P[Philip] de Wyleweby (Willoughby)
- William de Fankennan, brother of the order of St Mary de Areno
- John de Cerbidesham, brother of the order of St Mary de Areno
- John de Norwico (Norwich), brother of the order of St Mary de Areno
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1267-1317, with reference to the VCH for London, and CMI 1307-49, no.287 - with the likelihood that it is from the reign of Edward I.Dated elsewhere to '? c. 1279', with reference to H. de Kendale and P. de Willoughby as the justices appointed by the papal letters to hear the brothers' grievances, listing further references to them in CPR 1272-81 p.297 (4 January 1279), and CCR 1272-9 pp.527 (26 April 1279) and 565-566 (1279).The house of the Friars de Areno in Norwich seems to have come to an end in or soon after 1307, and that in London in 1317.
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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 3378
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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)
- Latin
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062541/
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