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

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.

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

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

• 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)