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Nicholas Litlyngtone, Abbot of Westminster. Litlyngtone Nicholas King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4206

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Reference
SC 8/85/4206
Date
[? 1377-1386]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas Litlyngtone, Abbot of Westminster.
Name(s)
Litlyngtone, Nicholas
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Westminster
Nature of request
Nicholas, Abbot of Westminster, states that Edward the Confessor gave the church of Westminster the manor of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire, with its appurtenances including the wood and vill of Corse, and that this gift has been confirmed by kings, including the present king, and popes, but that because game has strayed out of the chase of Malvern into this wood, the lords of Malvern have usurped the wood, and the Abbey's rights there, to themselves, taking distraints and redemptions from malefactors in the wood, and preventing the Abbot from having his profit there. The Abbot therefore asks that his evidence for his rights might be seen and examined, the distraints rectified, and the Abbot able to have his profit from the wood.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Westminster
Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
Corse, [Gloucestershire]
Chase of Malvern, [Worcestershire].
People mentioned
Edward the Confessor, King of England.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1377-86, and further to '? 1385', with reference to SC 8/85/4205. This petition must date from before the death of Nicholas Litlyngtone, Abbot of Westminster (see CPR 1385-9 p.245, for permission to the prior and convent of Westminster to elect a new abbot after his death (12 December 1386)), and, if it is the petition from the Abbot of Westminster mentioned by SC 8/85/4205, must date from after the commitment to Elizabeth le Despenser of her late husband's lands and tenements during his heir's minority (CFR 1377-83 p.46, dated 12 December 1377).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/106/5275

For another petition from Lady le Despenser on this subject, see SC 8/107/5316

For a petition on the same subject from the widow of Lord Despenser, see SC 8/85/4205

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2881
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148748/

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