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Abbot of Rewley outside Oxford. King and council. Abbot of Rewley outside Oxford...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/68/3381
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/68/3381
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Rewley outside Oxford.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Rewley outside Oxford
- Nature of request
- The Abbot of Rewley outside Oxford states that he holds the church of Soham in fee farm of the alien Abbot of le Pin, and that he paid that farm to the Abbot for four years, a year before the lands, tenements and rents of aliens were taken into the king's hand: as he will prove by whatever means the council demands. He is now being asked to pay the farm again, by summons of the Exchequer; and requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Send to the Exchequer] a writ of the great seal containing the effect of this petition that, when the Abbot's complaint has been heard, and the acquittance that he has been examined, and, if necessary, when there has been an inquiry into the truth of this matter, if they find that the Abbot paid the said farm beforehand in good faith, and not by fraud and collusion, to deprive the king of the farm, then they are to have him discharged of the said farm for the time that he paid beforehand.
- Places mentioned
- Rewley, [Oxfordshire]
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Le Pin Abbey, [Poitou, France]
- Soham, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of le Pin.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1337-9 pp.316-317 is dated 10 February 1338. However, 'Petitions Relation to Oxford' dates it to 1285-6, almost certainly in error, while another writ was issued on this matter in 1301 (CCR 1296-1302, p.479).
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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 6967
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), pp.316-7 (orders to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer in accordance with the terms of the endorsement)
- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.99 (edition and discussion of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107152/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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