Abbess of Burnham. King and council. Abbess of Burnham The Abbess of Burnham states...

Petitioners

Abbess of Burnham.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbess of Burnham

Nature of request

The Abbess of Burnham states that the King granted her the manor of Bulstrode with its appurtenances at farm, but that Geoffrey de Bolestrode claimed in Chancery that he had a right to certain lands in that manor. An inquisition found that his claims were false, but he has nevertheless harvested and carried off corn, destroyed woods, and prevented the Abbess from having profit from this manor. The King has had the lands seized into his hands until the matter is determined before the council. She asks that the process might be brought into parliament, and read there, and that it might be ordained that she might hold both these lands and the rest of the manor in peace, paying the farm for it.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Burnham, [Buckinghamshire]

Bulstrode, [Buckinghamshire].

People mentioned

Geoffrey de Bolestrode (Bulstrode).

For transcript, see p.114 of PRO 31/7/123

For a related petition from Geoffrey de Bolestrode, with related documents (SC 8/95/4739A-K), see SC 8/95/4739K

For a related petition from the Abbess and convent, see SC 8/97/4828

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.253 (order, dated 12 February 1328, to deliver certain lands to Geoffrey de Bolestrode)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.11-12 (order, dated 2 March 1330, to resume the lands and tenements into the King's hand and to deliver them to the Abbess and convent of Burnham) & p.356 (order, dated 24 October 1331, to pardon the Abbess and convent their farm, because of their expenses in their suit with Geoffrey de Bulstrode)