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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of Grace Dieu. King The petitioners request that the king's ministers...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2462
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Grace Dieu. King The petitioners request that the king's ministers... dating from [c. 1307-c. 1322] 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 8/50/2462
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-c. 1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Grace Dieu.
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that the king's ministers be ordered to allow the two monks that the abbey finds to sing for the souls of the king and his ancestors at his free chapel of St Briavels to have what housebote and haybote in the Forest of Dean as the profits of the chapel are not sufficient to maintain them. The monks were accustomed to have this but the king's ministers of his castle of St Briavels have disturbed them.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be sent the constables of the castle that they enquire upon the contents in the petition, and if it is found that the monks had the estovers, they should permit them to have it as they were accustomed to do.
- Places mentioned
- St Briavels, [Gloucestershire]
- Forest of Dean, [Gloucestershire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated very tentatively, on the basis of the hand and notes on the guard, to the reign of Edward II, and placed before 1322 because the endorsement is in Latin.
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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 3612
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.68 (full summary of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1361-1364, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.11 (response to what seems to be a similar but later petition concerning common in the forest)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062675/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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