Abbot and convent of Westminster. King and council. The Abbot and convent of Westminster...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Westminster.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The Abbot and convent of Westminster request payment of an annual tithe of £8 from the vill of Droitwich, Worcestershire, which the Countess of Kent is refusing to pay, as they are not specified in the charter she has for the fee farm of the vill, although it appears from the records of the Exchequer that this tithe is owed to them. A copy of a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer on this matter, in response to a previous petition, is attached to this petition.

Nature of endorsement

The Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered, by a writ containing the substance of the matter, that, when they have examined the charter that the Abbot claims to have for the tithe, if they find by inspection of it that the tithe is due to them, and when they have examined the remembrances of the Exchequer, if they find that the abbots of the same place received the said £8 for the same tithe, as is claimed, and when they have had consideration for the assignment made to the Countess, they are to order the Countess to pay the said £8 to the Abbot for the entire rent, allowing the Countess as much as she will pay the Abbot in this way, and making allowance in the debts the Abbot owes the King for what is in arrears of the said £8 for the time when the entire rent was in the King's hand.

Places mentioned

Droitwich, Worcestershire

Westminster.

People mentioned

[Margaret of Woodstock], Countess of Kent.

The copy of the findings of the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer mentioned by this petition, and of the writ which authorised it, is SC 8/77/3843

A related petition is SC 8/78/3878

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.57-58 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to pay the tithe, in response to a previous petition)
• Calendar of Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer), Michaelmas 1326-Michaelmas 1327, (Public Record Office, 1968), no.536 (certiorari as to whether the Abbot of Westminster and his predecessors received £8 for a tenth of the farm of Droitwich or not before the town was assigned by Edward I to Queen Margaret)