Abbot of St Radegund's Bradsole, near Dover. [Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster],...

Petitioners

Abbot of St Radegund's Bradsole, near Dover.

Addressees

[Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster], the King's brother.

Occupation

Abbot of St Radegund's Bradsole, near Dover

Nature of request

The Abbot of St Radegund's, near Dover, requests the aid of the King's brother in expediting three pieces of business:1) The king has granted them that they may appropriate 48 acres of land in fee, as can be seen by the inquisition on this, which is sewn to this petition, and this inquisition has been delivered to William de Corbregge, but they have had no attorney in the King's court to expedite their business since the King's coming. They ask that this land might be delivered to them.2) The King has granted them a gate through the city wall of Canterbury to their houses and they ask that they might be able to break through the wall to make this gate.3) They state that they lately demanded greater and lesser tithes from the Sub-prior and convent of St Martin's, Dover for a manor which they hold belonging to the church of Sibertswold, of which St Radegund's holds the appropriation and advowson; but that the Sub-prior has obtained a prohibition by claiming, falsely, the Abbot of St Radegund's has empleaded him in court Christian for a quarter of that advowson. The Abbot requests that the case may return to the original court.

Nature of endorsement

Coram domino rege.

Places mentioned

Dover, Kent

Canterbury, [Kent]

Sibertswold, [Kent].

People mentioned

William de Corbregge (Corbridge)

Subprior and convent of St Martin's, Dover

Archdeacon of Canterbury

Prior of St Augustine's, Canterbury.

The related inquisition ad quod damnum is C 143/14/19

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.362 (licence for the alienation in mortmain to the Abbot and convent of St Radegund's by Dover of various lands)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.68a-b (Latin summary of related but earlier petition on parliament roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no. 238 (edition of petition)