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Abbess of Burnham. King and council. Abbess of Burnham The Abbess of Burnham states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/97/4827
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This record is about the Abbess of Burnham. King and council. Abbess of Burnham The Abbess of Burnham states... dating from [1330-1331] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/97/4827
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330-1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition would seem to date from after 2 March 1330, the date of CCR 1330-3 pp.11-12 - possibly from later in that year, from the reference to the harvesting of corn, or perhaps from 1331, as a writ ordering that Geoffrey de Bulstrode be attached to answer on why he has prevented delivery of these lands (SC 8/95/4739J) is dated 29 September, 5 Edward III (1331). It would seem perhaps to be slightly later than SC 8/97/4828.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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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 1267
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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)
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- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149394/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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