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Abbot and convent of Kirkstall King and council The petitioners ask the king to despatch...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/55/2744

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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Kirkstall King and council The petitioners ask the king to despatch... dating from [c. 1333] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/55/2744
Date
[c. 1333]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Kirkstall
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The petitioners ask the king to despatch a writ to his justices ordering them to pass judgement in accordance with the results of an inquest and enforce the law in the same matter. The petitioners show that they have long sued to king and council in parliament over certain parcels of waste and pasture, which they claim as appurtenant to their manor of Bernolueswik. These lands, held by the queen, were granted to de Lacy thus depriving Grymeston (the present Abbot's predecessor) of seisin and inquests were held on the orders of the king and queen and returned into chancery, and the case of the Abbot was found to be correct. The king's writ was then sent to his justices ordering them to implement the results of the inquest. The justices inspected the evidence and found the actions of the Abbot to be correct and that he should pursue the matter by petitioning the queen, which was done to the Abbot's satisfaction, but implementation of the results of the inquest was inordinately delayed by Scrope and his fellow justices, who refused to obey the first order.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bernolueswik (Barnoldswick), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
People mentioned
Isabella of France, Queen of England
Henry de Lacy, late Earl of Lincoln
Hugh de Grymeston, late Abbot of Kirkstall
Geoffrey le Scrope
Note
Firmly datable by reference to CPR 1330-4 p. 70.
Related material

For a related memorandum, see SC 8/156/7782

For a related petition see SC 8/55/2727

For a related petition, see SC 8/154/7657

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4640
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.70 (resulting grant)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062962/

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