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Abbot of Bardsey. King and council. 1) The abbot requests that no officers of the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4568
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/92/4568
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1290-c. 1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, dates this petition to 1315-16 on the basis of close and patent roll entries of this period. However the petition is very crude, and the hand does not appear to be of this date. Rees does note that some of the grievances appear among the Kennington petitions of 1305, and a dating of this petition in Edward I's reign seems more likely. The petition has been rather speculatively dated to 1290-1307.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 558
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.140-2 (full calandar of the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149116/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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