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Abbot of Bindon. King. Abbot of Bindon The abbot requests that Gulden be ordered...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/93/4613

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This record is about the Abbot of Bindon. King. Abbot of Bindon The abbot requests that Gulden be ordered... dating from [1333] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/93/4613
Date
[1333]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Bindon.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Bindon
Nature of request
The abbot requests that Gulden be ordered to render £4 10s. of the profits from land in East and West Burton which the king granted to them.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue by the common law.
Places mentioned
Bindon, [Dorset]
East Burton, [Dorset]
West Burton, [Dorset].
People mentioned
Henry de Gulden, late escheator of Somerset and Dorset.
Note
The petition dates to 1333 because it refers to Henry de Gulden as the late escheator, and his term ended in October 1333 (List of Escheators, p.134). In addition, an inquisition into the grant by Walter Elys and his wife Isabel that lay behind this petition was held by Gulden on 8 January 1333, and Gulden's successor was ordered to stop meddling in these lands on 28 September 1333 (CIM 1307-49, no.1303; CCR 1333-7, p.140).
Related material

For a further petition on a related matter by the same petitioner see SC 8/37/1831

For a further petition relating to this house see SC 8/37/1829

For another petition from this house, see SC 8/37/1830

For another petition by the abbot, see SC 8/93/4613

For a related petition see SC 8/239/11943

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 686
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.140 (order to the escheator to restore the tenements in East and West Burton to the abbot if Isabel Elys still lived)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1303 (inquisition that Walter Elys and Isabel his wife granted certain tenements in East and West Burton to the abbot for life for a corrody)
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