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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot of Cerne Abbas. The King Abbot of Cerne Abbas The petitioner seeks the king's...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4977
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This record is about the Abbot of Cerne Abbas. The King Abbot of Cerne Abbas The petitioner seeks the king's... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1350] 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 8/100/4977
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Cerne Abbas.
- Addressees
- The King
- Occupation
- Abbot of Cerne Abbas
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks the king's charter (for a reasonable fine) granting him and his successors the aforesaid hundreds at fee farm forever. He states that his abbey was founded by the king's progenitors and that the tenants residing in these hundreds in greater part belong to the Abbey, because of which they have complaints by various farmers that they cannot make the services due. Upon this [matter] the Abbot brought a petition into parliament asking for the said hundreds, on which Beauchamp and his fellow justices were commissioned to enquire if this would be to the loss of the king or others, if [not] then the king was to grant the petitioner's request, which is proved by the inquest returned into chancery.
- Nature of endorsement
- Delay until the parliament.
- Places mentioned
- Cerne Abbas, [Dorset]
- Tollerford Hundred, [Dorset]
- Eggardon Hundred, [Dorset]
- Godderthorn Hundred, [Dorset]
- Uggescombe Hundred, [Dorset]
- St George Hundred, [Dorset]
- Whiteway Hundred, [Dorset]
- Redlane Hundred, [Dorset]
- Somerset.
- People mentioned
- John de Beauchamp of Somerset.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No positive dating established: the family of Beauchamp of Somerset produced a succession of Johns in the period of the first three Edwards, and the petition is notionally assigned here to the first half of the fourteenth century.
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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 1781
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149544/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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