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People of Bridport. King. The people of Bridport state that the Abbot of Cerne Abbas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/89/4417

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Reference
SC 8/89/4417
Date
[1283]
Description
Petitioners
People of Bridport.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people of Bridport state that the Abbot of Cerne Abbas and his bailiffs took some wreck at Bridport, which should have belonged to the King and to the people of Bridport, and that he procured an inquest which found that some earlier wreck was also his, and awarded him damages of £10, whereas the Sheriff had valued that wreck at 2 shillings. They request a remedy and council as to how to save the £10, the wreck and their franchise.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bridport, [Dorset]
Dorset
Cerne Abbas, [Dorset].
People mentioned
The Abbot of Cerne Abbas.
Note
Identified by PROME C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 32(ii) and by Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined. p.15 as part of the 'petitio... hominum de Bridport' mentioned on the record of decisions taken and business done by the Acton Burnel parliament of Michaelmas 1283 (C 49/2/3).
Related material

For transcript, see p.11 of PRO 31/7/92

For another petition from the people of Bridport, see SC 8/89/4416

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 165
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.15 (edition of a record of the Acton Burnel parliament of 1283 which mentions a petition which may be this one) & pp.19-20 (no.32f) (full edition of 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), C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 32(v) (full edition and translation)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148961/

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