Abbot of Bardsey. King and council. 1) The abbot requests that no officers of the...

Petitioners

Abbot of Bardsey.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

1) The abbot requests that no officers of the king enter his liberty without his licence except for forfeitures when the king's bailiff should summon the tenants through the abbot's bailiff.2) The abbot requests that his tenants should not be amerced by the oaths of woodwards or the farmers of the office except if they are found trespassing in the king's wood according to the Statutes of Rhuddlan.3) He requests that his tenants who live by the sea who lose animals over the cliffs should not lose them as contrary to the laws and customs of North Wales the king's ministers claim them as wreck of the sea.4) He requests that his tenants whose animals are taken pasturing in fields and pastures that are in defence should not lose, but should pay for each animal for the pasture.5) The abbot requests that since the house has, since its foundation, been free from all secular exactions, that they have the tolls from the king's men selling fish and other things in the abbey's liberties.6) The abbot states that his tenants have had common pasture in all the lands of the freemen of Lleyn in open and closed time, but now when these lands come into the king's hand the farmers disturb them.1)

Nature of endorsement

The justice of Wales is to enquire of the truth of this and certify the king.2) In Chancery.

Places mentioned

Bardsey, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]

Rhuddlan, [Flintshire, Wales]

Lleyn, [Caernarvonshire, Wales].

For an inquisition concerning the same abbey SC 8/180/8959

For another petition by the same house see SC 8/179/8909

For a writ of enquiry concerning the same abbey SC 8/179/8911