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Commons of the hundred of Crondall. King and Council in Parliament. The petitioners...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5112

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Reference
SC 8/103/5112
Date
[c. 1378]
Description
Petitioners
Commons of the hundred of Crondall.
Addressees
King and Council in Parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioners seek a remedy that all the people in the said hundred should not be ruined. They state that in the parliament held at Westminster in the time of King Henry III, by common petition sued there to King Henry and his lords and all the commons then present it was agreed that all the lands and tenements afforested after the coronation of King Henry II until the coronation of King Henry III be removed from forest status, except demesne lands that belonged to King John and King Richard, and upon this a statute was made, and then commissions were issued one to John Berewyk and his fellows, to make perambulation. And upon this a charter was granted by King Edward I, that Crondall hundred and all the other lands in Hampshire afforested in the said times be removed from forest status, except for King Henry II's demesne lands, and held as measured until now. William, Bishop of Winchester, claims free warren in the hundred with all the people dwelling therein etc., also the king's tenants as others etc. And various persons are pursued by writ or fine by the bishop to the point of distraint, to the great damage of all the land. Tenants of the king as others will be disinherited if the bishop has his purpose.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Crondall hundred, [Hampshire]
Westminster
Hampshire
Bagshot, [Surrey]
Windsor, [Berkshire]
Aldershot Forest, [Hampshire]
Surrey
Woolpit, [Surrey]
Weybourne, [Surrey]
Glorney, [Surrey]
Longbridge, [Surrey]
Linsford, [Surrey]
Chilworth, [Surrey]
Bladeworth [unidentified], [Surrey]
Eversley, [Hampshire]
Winchester, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
Henry III, King of England
John, King of England
Richard I, King of England
John Berewyk
Henry II, King of England
Edward I, King of England
William [Wykeham], Bishop of Winchester.
Note
Notes on the guard date this petition to c. 1378.
Related material

For a near duplicate of this petition see SC 8/113/5636

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2089
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149682/

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