Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we’re still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

People of Ogbourne. King and council 1) The people request remedy as Ogbourne is...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/63/3133

What’s it about?

This record is about the People of Ogbourne. King and council 1) The people request remedy as Ogbourne is... dating from [1332-1334] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
SC 8/63/3133
Date
[1332-1334]
Description
Petitioners
People of Ogbourne.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
1) The people request remedy as Ogbourne is ancient demesne and they are wrongfully injured in many ways by the abbot who has knocked down their houses and seized their lands into his hand so that their heirs cannot enjoy their lands, beating many of them and indicting them of conspiracy and confederacy before the justices.2) They further complain that the abbot has detained for 30 years of the alms that were given by the king and his ancestors to those who wished to come and receive the alms which has been found by an inquisition before the justices.
Nature of endorsement
It seems to the council if it pleases the king to pardon them their imprisonment, and concerning the alms let as much be given to those as pertains to them for their poverty.
Places mentioned
Ogbourne St George, [Wiltshire]
Newgate, [London]
Wokingham, [Berkshire]
Salisbury, [Wiltshire]
York
Bec, [Normandy, France].
People mentioned
Abbot of Bec
Walter le Vynour
Richard de Whiliby (Willoughby), Justice
Robert Selman, Justice.
Note
The petition dates to the period 1332-1334 when an inquisition was held and 4 separate commissions of oyer and terminer were issued concerning complaints for and against the people of Great and Little Ogbourne (CIM 1307-49, no.1269; CPR 1330-4, p.299, 347, 501). As the last of the commissions issued on 16 July 1334 seems the most relevant to the petition, it possibly that the petition is later than earlier in this short period, perhaps being 1334.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/164/8157

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6283
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1269 (inquisition into the activities of the of the abbot at Great and Little Ogbourn against the abbot)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.299, 347, 501, 583 (commissions of oyer and terminer concerning complaint by and against the people)
  • The English Lands of the Abbey of Bec, Marjorie Morgan, (Kings and Chroniclers: Essays in English, 1946), pp.107-108 (partial edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106896/

Series information

SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

74,884 records

Within the department: SC

Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly...

18,283 records

Within the series: SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

51 records

Within the piece: SC 8/63

3101-3150. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item...

You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/63/3133

People of Ogbourne. King and council 1) The people request remedy as Ogbourne is...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.