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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 Reading. King and council. The Abbot and convent of Reading...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/68/3382
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/68/3382
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Reading.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Abbot and convent of Reading state that although by their charters they ought to have the forfeitures both of their own tenants and of the tenants of others within their franchise, they are being prevented by sheriffs and others from exercising these rights with regard to the tenements forfeited by Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March. They request a remedy, so that they might be able to have the year and waste and forfeited chattels, and the escheat of the tenements held of them, as they should by law.
- Nature of endorsement
- They are to show their charter, and when the charter has been shown, it is to be sent before the King.This petition is to be sent to Chancery, so that when the Chancellor has examined the charter there and called the justices of both benches, and other wise men of the King's council, and also the King's serjeants, if necessary, and when he has informed himself about the allowances that have previously been made to the said Abbot and convent in such a case, what can be done by course of the law is to be done for him, and what cannot be done is to be brought back before the King.
- Places mentioned
- Reading, [Berkshire]
- La Hoke (unidentified), Herefordshire
- Leominster, Herefordshire
- Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire.
- People mentioned
- Henry [I], King of England
- Roger de Mortymer (Mortimer), Earl of March
- Roger de Chaundos, Sheriff of Herefordshire
- Roger Pichard
- Philip de la Beche, formerly Sheriff of Berkshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Roger de Chaundos was Sheriff of Herefordshire between 5 January 1322 and 23 October 1327, and between 6 October 1328 and 30 January 1332, and Philip de la Beche was Sheriff of Berkshire between 2 January and 5 December 1330. This accords with the death of Roger Mortimer on 29 November 1330 to give a date of c. 1331.
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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 6904
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.43 (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 57 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107153/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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