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Petitioners

Philip de Columbers.

Name(s)

de Columbers, Philip

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Philip de Columbers states that the Abbot of Bec-Hellouin has presented to the King one of his monks to be Prior of Goldcliff, which is of the foundation of Philip's ancestors, although no Abbot has ever previously presented to the priory. He requests a remedy for this disinheritance.

Nature of endorsement

Coram magno consilio.He is to show in Chancery the charters which he has for the advowson, and the rolls of Chancery are to be examined; and the Chancellor is to inform the council of what has been found on this matter.

Places mentioned

Goldcliff, [Monmouthshire, Wales]

Bec-Hellouin, [Normandy, France].

People mentioned

The Abbot of Bec-Hellouin.

For transcript, see no.30 of PRO 31/7/97

For another petition by an earlier prior complaining about further outrages done to his house see SC 8/83/4101

For another later dispute by a subsequent prior concerning further outrages committed to the house see SC 8/50/2456

For a duplicate of SC 8/50/2456 see SC 8/50/2457

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.157 (calendar of petition)
• Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.35 (edition of Latin summary of petition, possibly this one, on parliament roll)