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Abbot of Thorney. King and council. Abbot of Thorney The Abbot of Thorney complains...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/75/3739
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/75/3739
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Thorney.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Thorney
- Nature of request
- The Abbot of Thorney complains that the hundred of Normancross, which he and his predecessors held, was taken into the king's hand, because of the withholding of 20s of rent, although these 20.s were from the Abbot of Peterborough's vills of Alwalton and Fletton, and were allowed to the sheriff in the time of Richard I when the Abbot produced charters of franchises for the vills. He asks for the King's grace in this matter, and that his house might remain in the same estate as it was in the time of his predecessors.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Thorney, [Cambridgeshire]
- Normancross hundred, [Huntingdonshire]
- Alwalton, [Huntingdonshire]
- Fletton, [Huntingdonshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard [I], King of England
- the Abbot of Peterborough
- Richard le Engleis (English), Sheriff of Huntingdonshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This is probably the petition a summary of which is edited in Rot. Parl. vol. I p.52a (no.74), from a roll ascribed to the Easter parliament of 1290 by Richardson and Sayles (The English Parliament in the Middle Ages, XIX, pp.146-7), especially as no answer is recorded on that roll. However, the hundred was not restored to the abbot and convent until 1 February 1292 (CPR 1281-92 p.473), and it says there that it was taken into the King's hand in 15 Edward I (20 November 1286 - 19 November 1287), so there remains a possibility that this is in fact another petition on the same subject.CPR 1281-92 pp.369 is dated 28 June 1290.
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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 7974
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp.369 (appointment of Queen Eleanor to the custody of the hundred, recently recovered by the King) & 473 (restitution of the hundred to the abbot and monks)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.52a (no.74) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll) & 42a (entry detailing the ownership and farm of the hundred of Normancross, and prohibiting any grant of it to the Abbot of Peterborough or the Abbot of Thorney for two or three years) & 83b (no.14) (grant of the hundred of Normancross to the Abbot of Thorney)
- 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. 92 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107513/
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