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Abbot of Ramsey. King and council. Abbot of Ramsey The Abbot of Ramsey states that,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/69/3446

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This record is about the Abbot of Ramsey. King and council. Abbot of Ramsey The Abbot of Ramsey states that,... dating from [1334-1335] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/69/3446
Date
[1334-1335]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Ramsey.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Ramsey
Nature of request
The Abbot of Ramsey states that, although he and predecessors have had, by charters of the King's predecessors, amercements of all their men allowed at the Exchequer, the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are refusing to allow him the amercements of his men, mainpernors in a plea between the Abbot and Roger le Mareschal. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
This petition is to be sent before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer so that, when they have seen the same petition and the Abbot's charters, and the allowances made to him in such a case, as the petition claims, swift and full justice is to be done to him.
Places mentioned
Ramsey, [Huntingdonshire]
Bedfordshire.
People mentioned
Roger le Mareschal (Marshal)
Thomas Joye
Robert Catelyne
John Catelyne
David Fythean
Thomas Terry
Richard Wodeward
Walter Wodeward
Simon Godale
Stephen Wildefoul
John Barfot
Reynald atte Grene (Green)
Robert West
John de Burdenden
Thomas Godewyne
John de Penterich
John atte Brigge (Bridge)
Thomas Catelyne
William Catelyne.
Note
The duplicate petition, SC 8/261/13037, is dated to 8 Edward III (25 January 1334 - 24 January 1335) by Hale, from whose copy the edition is taken.
Related material

A duplicate petition, with a different endorsement and a shorter list of names of mainpernors, is SC 8/261/13037

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6902
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.80a (no.30) (full edition of later copy of duplicate petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107217/

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